Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Kim

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

William Shakespeare

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

10.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

12.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

16.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

17.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

18.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

Bible

20.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

21.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

22.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

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

24.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

25.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

27.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

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

29.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

30.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

31.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

32.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

33.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

35.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

36.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

37.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

38.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

39.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

40.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

41.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

42.

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

Peter Ustinov

43.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

44.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

45.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

47.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

48.

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

49.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

50.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van