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, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

10.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

14.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

15.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

16.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

18.

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

Mother Teresa

19.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

20.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

21.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

22.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

23.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

24.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

27.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

29.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

34.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

35.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

36.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

37.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

38.

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

39.

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

Dryden, John

40.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

41.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

42.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

44.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

45.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

46.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

47.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

48.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

50.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.