Motivational Quotes

Love

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

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

Croft, Roy

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

10.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

11.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

14.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

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

17.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

18.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

19.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

22.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

23.

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

24.

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

Toni Morrison

25.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

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

27.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

28.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

29.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

30.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

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.

33.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

34.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

35.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

36.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

37.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

38.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

39.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

40.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

41.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

42.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

43.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

Jeanne Moreau

46.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

47.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

48.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

49.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

50.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare