Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Pascal, Blaise

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

10.

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

11.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

13.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

14.

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

Michael Patrick King

15.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

16.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

17.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

18.

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

19.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

20.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

21.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

22.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

23.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

24.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

25.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

26.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

27.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

31.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

32.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

33.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

34.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

36.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

38.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

39.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

40.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

44.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

45.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

47.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

49.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

50.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van