Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Toni Morrison

Best Quotes about Love

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Wilde, Oscar

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

10.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

11.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

13.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

14.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

15.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

17.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

18.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

21.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

22.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

23.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

24.

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

John Sheffield

25.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

27.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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.

33.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

34.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

36.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

37.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

38.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

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

40.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

41.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

42.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

43.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

44.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

47.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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