Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Love

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

11.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

12.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

13.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

16.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

18.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

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

23.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

24.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

25.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

26.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

28.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

29.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

30.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

33.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

36.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

37.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

38.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

39.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

40.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

42.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

43.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

44.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

45.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

49.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

50.

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