Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Desai, Yogi

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

10.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

11.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

12.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

14.

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

Hazlitt, William

15.

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

Sand, George

16.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

17.

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

18.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

19.

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

Richardson, Nick

20.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

21.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

22.

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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Jean Anouilh

25.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

26.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

28.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

Swift, Jonathan

30.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

31.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

32.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

35.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

36.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

37.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

38.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

40.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

43.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

44.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

46.

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

Brookner, Anita

47.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

48.

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

49.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa