Motivational Quotes

Love

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

- Shan, Merle

Best Quotes about Love

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Erica Jong

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Anderson, Margaret

10.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

11.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

12.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

13.

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

14.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

16.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

18.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

19.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

21.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

22.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

23.

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

24.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

25.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

27.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

28.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

29.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Sand, George

32.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

33.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

Pascal, Blaise

37.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

38.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

40.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

41.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

42.

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

Capote, Truman

43.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

44.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

46.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

47.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

48.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

50.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.