Motivational Quotes

Love

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Menninger, Karl A.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

11.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

13.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

14.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

15.

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

Tracy, Brian

16.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

22.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

23.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

24.

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

25.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

27.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

29.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

30.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

31.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

32.

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

33.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

34.

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

Clark, Melanie

35.

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

Croft, Roy

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

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.

40.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

41.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

42.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

43.

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

Proverb, French

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

49.

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

Bible

50.

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

Proverb, Jewish