Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

- Hardenberg, Novalis

Best Quotes about Love

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

William Shakespeare

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

10.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

11.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

12.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

14.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

15.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

16.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

17.

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

18.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

19.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

20.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

22.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

23.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

25.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

26.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

27.

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

Ackerman, Diane

28.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

29.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

30.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

31.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

32.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

33.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

34.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

35.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

37.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

38.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

41.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

42.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

45.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

46.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

48.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

49.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

50.

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

Lawrence, D. H.