Motivational Quotes

Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

- Karen Sunde

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Proverb, Spanish

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

10.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

11.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

12.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

15.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

18.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

19.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

20.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

21.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

22.

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.

23.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

24.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

25.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

26.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

27.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

30.

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

Sand, George

31.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

32.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

33.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

34.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

35.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

36.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

37.

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

38.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

39.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

40.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

44.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

46.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

47.

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

48.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

49.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

50.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare