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

1.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

2.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

3.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

4.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

5.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

6.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

7.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

8.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

9.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

12.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

14.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

17.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

18.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

19.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

21.

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

22.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

25.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

27.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

31.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

32.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

33.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

36.

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

37.

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

Connolly, Cyril

38.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

41.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

42.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

43.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

44.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

45.

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

Williams, William Carlos

46.

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