Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Love

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

11.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

12.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

13.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

15.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

16.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

17.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

18.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

19.

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

Proverb

20.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

21.

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

Toni Morrison

22.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

23.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

25.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

26.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

27.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

28.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

29.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

34.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

35.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

36.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

37.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

38.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

39.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

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

41.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

42.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

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

Bible

44.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

45.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

46.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

47.

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

48.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

49.

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

50.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William