Motivational Quotes

Love

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

- Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

2.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

3.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

4.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

5.

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

6.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

7.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

8.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

9.

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

Chanel, Coco

10.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

11.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

13.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Anderson, Margaret

16.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

17.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

18.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

21.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

22.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

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

John of the Cross, St.

24.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

26.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

28.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

29.

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

Layton, Irving

30.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

31.

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

Auerbach, Red

32.

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

Proverb, Jewish

33.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

34.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

35.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

36.

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

37.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

38.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

39.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

40.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

41.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

42.

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

Williams, William Carlos

43.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

45.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

46.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

47.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

48.

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

Strindberg, J. August

49.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

50.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham