Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

10.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

11.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

13.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

14.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

15.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

17.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

18.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

19.

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

20.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

21.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

22.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

23.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

Jeanne Moreau

25.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

28.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

30.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

32.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

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

Brookner, Anita

34.

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

35.

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

Victor Hugo

36.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

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

John Sheffield

39.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Anderson, Margaret

41.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

42.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

43.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

45.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

46.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

47.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

48.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

49.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

50.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano