Motivational Quotes

Love

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Love

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

Ackerman, Diane

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

12.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

13.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

14.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

15.

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

16.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

17.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

18.

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

19.

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

Lennon, John

20.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

21.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

22.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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

Dryden, John

24.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

27.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

28.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

29.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

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

National Lampoon

31.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

32.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

33.

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

Peguy, Charles

34.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

35.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

38.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

39.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

40.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

43.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

45.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

46.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

49.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord