Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Leunig, Michael

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

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

12.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

16.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

17.

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

John Sheffield

18.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

19.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

20.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

22.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

23.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

25.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

Euripides

27.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

28.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

30.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

33.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

34.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

35.

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

36.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

37.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

41.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

43.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

44.

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

Davis, Bette

45.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

46.

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

Ferry, Brian

47.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

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

49.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

50.

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

Jean Anouilh