Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

William Shakespeare

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

DiFranco, Ani

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Harrigan, John

10.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Bible

13.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

14.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

15.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

16.

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

Victor Hugo

17.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

18.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

21.

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

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

24.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

27.

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.

28.

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

Jane Austen

29.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

30.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

31.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

32.

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

33.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

34.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

35.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

36.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

37.

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

Wilde, Kim

38.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

42.

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

43.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

44.

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

Reagan, Ronald

45.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

46.

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.

47.

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