Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

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

Hugo, Victor

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

10.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

11.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

16.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

17.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

19.

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

20.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

25.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Vicious, Sid

27.

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

Fox, Emmet

28.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

30.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

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

Bible

34.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

35.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

36.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

37.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

38.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

39.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

41.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

42.

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

William Penn

43.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

44.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

46.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

47.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

48.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

49.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

50.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand