Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Van Gogh, Vincent

Best Quotes about Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

10.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

11.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

12.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

13.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

14.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

15.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

17.

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

18.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

19.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

21.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

22.

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

Burton, Robert

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

26.

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

27.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

28.

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

29.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

30.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

32.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

33.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

35.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

36.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

37.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

38.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

39.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

41.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

42.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

43.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

44.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

45.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

46.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

47.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

48.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

49.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

50.

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

Real Live Preacher