Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

Hayes, Helen

10.

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

11.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

12.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

13.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

16.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

17.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

18.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

19.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

20.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

22.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

24.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

25.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

26.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

28.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

29.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

30.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

31.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

35.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

36.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

38.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

40.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

41.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

42.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

44.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

45.

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

46.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

47.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

48.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

49.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand