Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

- Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

3.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

4.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

5.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

6.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

7.

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

8.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

9.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

12.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

13.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

14.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

18.

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

Carroll, Pat

19.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

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

Swift, Jonathan

24.

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

Aragon, Louis

25.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

28.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

29.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

30.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

31.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

32.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

34.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

35.

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

36.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

37.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

42.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

46.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

47.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

48.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

49.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

50.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire