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

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

10.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

13.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

14.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

15.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

16.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

18.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

19.

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

Connolly, Cyril

20.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

21.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

22.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

23.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

Paolo Giordano

26.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

27.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

28.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

32.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

33.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

34.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

36.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

37.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

38.

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.

39.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

West, Mae

44.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

45.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

46.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

47.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

48.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

49.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

50.

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