Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

10.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

11.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

12.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

13.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

14.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

15.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

16.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

17.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

19.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

20.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

21.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

24.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

25.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

26.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

29.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

30.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

31.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

32.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

37.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

38.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

39.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

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

41.

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

42.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

43.

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

44.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

45.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

46.

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.

47.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

48.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

49.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

50.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.