Motivational Quotes

Love

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

10.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

11.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

12.

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

Bible

13.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

16.

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

Heinlein, Robert

17.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

18.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

21.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

22.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

25.

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

Capote, Truman

26.

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

27.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

28.

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.

29.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

30.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

31.

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

32.

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

Bailey, Pearl

33.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

36.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

37.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

38.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

Julie Morgenstern

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

43.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

44.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

45.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

47.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

48.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

49.

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

50.

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

Mencken, H. L.