Motivational Quotes

Love

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Richardson, Nick

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

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

Bible

11.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

12.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

13.

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

Jeanne Moreau

14.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

15.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

17.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Brooke, Rupert

19.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

21.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

22.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

23.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

24.

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

25.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

26.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

27.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

28.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

29.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

30.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

31.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

32.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

34.

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

35.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

36.

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

37.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

40.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

41.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

45.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

46.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

47.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

48.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

49.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

50.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite