Motivational Quotes

Love

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Reagan, Ronald

2.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

3.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

4.

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

Toni Morrison

5.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

6.

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

7.

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

8.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

9.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

10.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

12.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

13.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

14.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

15.

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

DiFranco, Ani

16.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

17.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

18.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

19.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

20.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

21.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

26.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Peter Ustinov

30.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

31.

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

32.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

36.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

37.

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

John of the Cross, St.

38.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

39.

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

Smith, Sydney

40.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

43.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

Bible

45.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

46.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

47.

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

48.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

50.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu