Motivational Quotes

Love

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

- William Penn

Best Quotes about Love

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Oscar

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

10.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

12.

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

13.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Croft, Roy

15.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

16.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

17.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

18.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

Wilde, Kim

20.

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

Erica Jong

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

23.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

24.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

25.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

26.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

27.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

28.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

29.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

30.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

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

34.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

35.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

36.

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

Seneca

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Wieder, Marcia

42.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

43.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

44.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

45.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

46.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

47.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

48.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

49.

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

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

Buddha