Motivational Quotes

Love

True love is the parent of humility.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Love

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bible

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Stravinsky, Igor

10.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

11.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

12.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

13.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

14.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

15.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

17.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

18.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

19.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

20.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

21.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

22.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

23.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

24.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

25.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

26.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

27.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

28.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

29.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

30.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

31.

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

Wilkerson, David

32.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

33.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

35.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

36.

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

Duffy, Maureen

37.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

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

Paolo Giordano

42.

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

43.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

44.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

45.

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

Plato

46.

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

47.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

48.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

49.

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

Bridges, Robert

50.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert