Motivational Quotes

Love

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

10.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

13.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

14.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

16.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

21.

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

22.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

23.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

24.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

28.

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

Duras, Marguerite

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.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

31.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

33.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

34.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

35.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

36.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

37.

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

38.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

39.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

40.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

41.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

42.

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

Buddha

43.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

45.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

47.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

48.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

49.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

50.

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