Motivational Quotes

Love

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

- Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Best Quotes about Love

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

10.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

11.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

12.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

14.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

15.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

16.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

17.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

20.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

22.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

23.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

25.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

26.

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

27.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

28.

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

Rita Rudner

29.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

30.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

31.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

32.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

34.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

35.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

36.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

37.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

38.

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

39.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

40.

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

Jeanne Moreau

41.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

44.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

45.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

47.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

48.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

49.

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

50.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.