Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

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

Ovid

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

10.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

12.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

13.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

14.

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

Croft, Roy

15.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

16.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

Anderson, Margaret

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

20.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

22.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

23.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

27.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

29.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

30.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

31.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

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

Laing, R. D.

33.

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

34.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

35.

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

Ackerman, Diane

36.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

37.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

40.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

45.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

46.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.