Motivational Quotes

Love

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

2.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

3.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

4.

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

5.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

6.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

7.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

8.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

9.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

10.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

11.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

14.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

15.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

18.

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

19.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

20.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Victor Hugo

22.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

23.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

24.

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

25.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

National Lampoon

28.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

29.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

30.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

32.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

33.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

34.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

35.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

36.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

37.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

39.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

41.

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

Bible

42.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

43.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

44.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

46.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

47.

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.

48.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar