Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Sophocles

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

10.

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

11.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

13.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

14.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

16.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

17.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

18.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

20.

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.

21.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

22.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

23.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

24.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

25.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

26.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

30.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

32.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

34.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

35.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

36.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

37.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

38.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

40.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

44.

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

Carroll, Pat

45.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

46.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

47.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

49.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

50.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise