Motivational Quotes

Love

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Updike, John

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

10.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

11.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

12.

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

13.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

15.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

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

17.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

18.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

19.

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

Barry, Lynda

20.

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

Ackerman, Diane

21.

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.

22.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

23.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

24.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

31.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

32.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

35.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

36.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

37.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

38.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

39.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

40.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

41.

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

42.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

44.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

45.

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

46.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

47.

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

Fox, Emmet

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert