Motivational Quotes

Love

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Auvil, Myrtle

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Paolo Giordano

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

11.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

12.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

13.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

14.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

15.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

16.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Rita Rudner

18.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

22.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

24.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

25.

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

Diane Ackerman

26.

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

27.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

28.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

29.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

30.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

31.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

32.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

34.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

36.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

39.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

40.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

41.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar