Motivational Quotes

Love

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Federman, Irwin

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

10.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

11.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

14.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

15.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

17.

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

18.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

19.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

20.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

21.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

22.

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

23.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

25.

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

26.

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

27.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

28.

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

29.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

31.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

James, William

35.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

38.

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

39.

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

40.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

41.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

42.

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

Meredith, George

43.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

44.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

47.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

48.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

49.

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.

50.

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