Motivational Quotes

Love

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Love

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

10.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

11.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

13.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

16.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

17.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

18.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

19.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Buber, Martin

22.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

24.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

25.

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

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

27.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

28.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

Leunig, Michael

32.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

33.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

34.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

35.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

36.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

37.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

38.

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

Fromm, Erich

39.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

40.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

43.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

44.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

46.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

47.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

48.

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

Proverb

49.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.