Motivational Quotes

Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Love

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

10.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

13.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

15.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

18.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

19.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

20.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

21.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

23.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

24.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

25.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

26.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

27.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

28.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

29.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

31.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

32.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

33.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

35.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

36.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

37.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

38.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

39.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

41.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

45.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

46.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

47.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

48.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

50.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De