Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Love

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

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

Brooke, Rupert

'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

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

10.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

11.

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

Wieder, Marcia

12.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

13.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

16.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

17.

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

18.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

19.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

20.

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

21.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

22.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

23.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

24.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

25.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

26.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

27.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

29.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

31.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

33.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

34.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

36.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

38.

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

Disney, Walt

39.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

40.

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

41.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

43.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

44.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

45.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

46.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

48.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

49.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

50.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.