Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

2.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

3.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

4.

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

William Shakespeare

5.

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

6.

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

Duffy, Maureen

7.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

12.

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

13.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

16.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

17.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

18.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

19.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

23.

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

24.

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

Mother Teresa

25.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

27.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

28.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

29.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

32.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

33.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

34.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

35.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

36.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

37.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

38.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

39.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

40.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

41.

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

Updike, John

42.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

43.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

44.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.