Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

- Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Best Quotes about Love

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

10.

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

Bible

11.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

12.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

13.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

17.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

19.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Wilkerson, David

22.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

23.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

24.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

25.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

26.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

31.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

32.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

33.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

34.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

35.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

36.

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

Irving, Washington

37.

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

38.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

39.

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

Proverb

40.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

41.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

42.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

43.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

44.

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

45.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

46.

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

Dickinson, Emily

47.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

48.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

49.

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

50.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare