Motivational Quotes

Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Duras, Marguerite

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

10.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

12.

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

13.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

14.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

15.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

16.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

17.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

18.

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

19.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

21.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

22.

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

23.

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

John Sheffield

24.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

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

Laing, R. D.

26.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

27.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

28.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

29.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

30.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

31.

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.

32.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

33.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

34.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

36.

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.

37.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

39.

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

40.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

42.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

43.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

45.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

46.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

47.

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

David Viscott

48.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

49.

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.

50.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin