Motivational Quotes

Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

2.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

3.

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

4.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

5.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

6.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

7.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

8.

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

9.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

12.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

13.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

14.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

15.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

16.

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

17.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

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

Bible

19.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Murdoch, Iris

21.

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

22.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

23.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

24.

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

25.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

27.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

28.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

29.

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

30.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

Reik, Theodor

32.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

33.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

34.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

36.

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

37.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

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.

39.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

41.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

42.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

43.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

44.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

45.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

47.

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

Verse, A Haiku

48.

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.

49.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

50.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo