Motivational Quotes

Love

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Clark, Melanie

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

12.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

14.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

15.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

16.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

17.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

21.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

22.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

23.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

26.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

27.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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.

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

31.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

32.

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.

33.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

34.

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

35.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

36.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

37.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

38.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

39.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

40.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

41.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

42.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

44.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

46.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

47.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

50.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek