Motivational Quotes

Love

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

- Layton, Irving

Best Quotes about Love

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

10.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

11.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

Leunig, Michael

13.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

14.

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

Laing, R. D.

15.

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

16.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

17.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

18.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

19.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Irving, Washington

21.

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

22.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

23.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

25.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

26.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

29.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

30.

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

31.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

33.

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.

34.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

36.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

37.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

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

Donne, John

40.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

41.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

42.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

43.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

45.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

46.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

47.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.