Motivational Quotes

Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

- Karen Sunde

Best Quotes about Love

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Croft, Roy

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

10.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

11.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

12.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

13.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

15.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

17.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

18.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

19.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

20.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

21.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

22.

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

23.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

24.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

25.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

28.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

29.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

30.

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

31.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

32.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

33.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

36.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

37.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

38.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

39.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

40.

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

Rowland, Helen

41.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Disney, Walt

43.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

44.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

46.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

47.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.