Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Love

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Harrigan, John

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

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Eucharista Ward

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

10.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

15.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

16.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

19.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

23.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

24.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

25.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

26.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

27.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

28.

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

National Lampoon

29.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

30.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

33.

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.

34.

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.

35.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

36.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

38.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

41.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

44.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

45.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

46.

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

47.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

48.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

49.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

50.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu