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

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Osgood, Samuel

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

10.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

11.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

12.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

15.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

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

Laing, R. D.

17.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

18.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

21.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

22.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

24.

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

25.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

28.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

29.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

30.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

31.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

32.

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

Strindberg, J. August

33.

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

34.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

37.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

38.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

39.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Pythagoras

41.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

42.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

43.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

44.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

45.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

46.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

47.

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

48.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

49.

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

50.

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