Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

2.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

3.

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

Richardson, Nick

4.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

5.

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

6.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

7.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

8.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

9.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

10.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

11.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

13.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

14.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

15.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

16.

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

Layton, Irving

17.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

18.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

19.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

20.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

21.

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

Scott Westerfeld

22.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

23.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

24.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

26.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

27.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

28.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

29.

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

Jeanne Moreau

30.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

36.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

38.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

39.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

40.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

41.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

42.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

43.

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.

44.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

45.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

46.

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

Lao-Tzu

47.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

48.

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

Bacon, Francis

49.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

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