Motivational Quotes

Love

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Love

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bacon, Francis

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

Buscaglia, Leo

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

10.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

14.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

15.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

16.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

17.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

18.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

19.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

21.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

22.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

25.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

26.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

32.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

33.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

34.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

35.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

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

37.

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

Brookner, Anita

38.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

39.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

42.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

44.

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

Reagan, Ronald

45.

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.

46.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

47.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

49.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.