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

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

11.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

12.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

13.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

14.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

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

16.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

17.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

19.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

23.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

24.

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

Paolo Giordano

25.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

26.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

27.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

28.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

29.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

30.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

31.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

32.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

34.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

35.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

36.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

37.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

38.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Osgood, Samuel

40.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

42.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

43.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

44.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

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

46.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

47.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

48.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

49.

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

50.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand