Motivational Quotes

Love

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

- Hugh Elliott

Best Quotes about Love

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

10.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

11.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

14.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

15.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

17.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

19.

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

20.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

22.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

23.

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

Federman, Irwin

24.

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

25.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

26.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

34.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

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

36.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

37.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Brown, Les

40.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

41.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

43.

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

44.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

45.

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

46.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

47.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

48.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

49.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee