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

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

10.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

12.

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

Buddha

13.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

14.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

15.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

16.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

17.

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

Buber, Martin

18.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

19.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

22.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

23.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

26.

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

Strindberg, J. August

27.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

28.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

31.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

32.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

33.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

36.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

37.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

38.

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

39.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

40.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

41.

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

42.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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