Motivational Quotes

Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Bible

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

10.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

13.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

14.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

15.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

16.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

17.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

18.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

19.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

20.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

21.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

27.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

28.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

29.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

30.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

31.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

32.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

33.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

34.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

35.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

36.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

37.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

38.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

39.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

40.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

41.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

48.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

49.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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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