Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Love

1.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

2.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

3.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

4.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

5.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

6.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

7.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

8.

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

Buddha

9.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

11.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

13.

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

Ackerman, Diane

14.

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

15.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

16.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

17.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

18.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

19.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

20.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

21.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

22.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

23.

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.

24.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

26.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

27.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

29.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Jerome, St.

33.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

34.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

38.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

39.

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

John Sheffield

40.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

41.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

42.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

43.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

45.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

46.

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

47.

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

48.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

49.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

50.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen