Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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

Bible

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

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

10.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

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.

13.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

14.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

15.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

17.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

18.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

19.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

20.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

21.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

24.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

25.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

28.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

31.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

32.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

33.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

34.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

35.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

38.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

40.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

41.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

42.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

43.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

44.

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

Du Coeur

45.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

48.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

49.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

50.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe