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

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

10.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Anderson, Margaret

15.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

17.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

19.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

21.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

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

23.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

24.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

25.

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

26.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

27.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

29.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

30.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

33.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

34.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

35.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

36.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

38.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

39.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

41.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

42.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

44.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

45.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

46.

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

Proverb

47.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

48.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

49.

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

50.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare