Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

12.

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

13.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

14.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

15.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

16.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

17.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

19.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

20.

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

21.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

22.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

23.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

24.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

25.

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

Bible

26.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

27.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

30.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

33.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

34.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

36.

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

38.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

39.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

41.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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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

44.

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

Euripides

45.

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

46.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

48.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

49.

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

50.

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

Federman, Irwin