Motivational Quotes

Love

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Love

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

10.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

11.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

13.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

16.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

17.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

18.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

19.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

21.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

22.

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

Proverb

23.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

24.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

25.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

28.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

29.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

32.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

33.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

35.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

37.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

38.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

39.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

40.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

41.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

42.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

43.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

44.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

45.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

46.

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

Peter Ustinov

47.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

48.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.