Motivational Quotes

Love

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Jean Anouilh

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

10.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

12.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

13.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

14.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

15.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

16.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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.

18.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

19.

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

20.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

22.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

23.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

24.

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

25.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

27.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

29.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

30.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

32.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Bible

34.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

40.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

41.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

43.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

44.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

45.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

46.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

47.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

49.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.