Motivational Quotes

Love

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

10.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

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

Proverb, Japanese

12.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

13.

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

Crawford, Joan

14.

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

15.

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

Paolo Giordano

16.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

18.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

23.

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

Duras, Marguerite

24.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

25.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

27.

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

J. K. Rowling

28.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

30.

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

31.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

32.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

34.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

35.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

36.

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

37.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

38.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

39.

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

40.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

41.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

42.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

43.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

44.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

45.

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

46.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

47.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

48.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

49.

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

50.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington