Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Love

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Orwell, George

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

11.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

12.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

13.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

14.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

15.

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

Mother Teresa

16.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

21.

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

22.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

23.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

24.

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

Peter Ustinov

25.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

26.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

28.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

30.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

31.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

32.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Du Coeur

34.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

35.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

36.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

38.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

39.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

40.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

41.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

42.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

43.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

44.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

46.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

47.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

48.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

49.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

50.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare