Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Love

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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

Peter Ustinov

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

10.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

11.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

13.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

16.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

17.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

18.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

19.

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

20.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

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

Reagan, Ronald

23.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

26.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

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

29.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

31.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

32.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

34.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

35.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

36.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

37.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

38.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

39.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

42.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

43.

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

44.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

45.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

46.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

47.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

49.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

50.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.