Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Love

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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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.

11.

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

West, Mae

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

14.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

16.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

17.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

18.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

21.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

23.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

24.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

25.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

26.

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

27.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

30.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

32.

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

Chanel, Coco

33.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

34.

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

Irving, Washington

35.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

36.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

37.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

38.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

39.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

40.

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

41.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

42.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

43.

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

44.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

47.

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.