Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Crawford, Joan

Best Quotes about Love

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Brooke, Rupert

11.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

12.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

13.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

14.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

15.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

16.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

17.

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

Pythagoras

18.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

19.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

20.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

21.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

24.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

25.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

27.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

30.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

31.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

32.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

33.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

34.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

35.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

36.

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

Bible

37.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

38.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

40.

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

Wilde, Kim

41.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

44.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

45.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

46.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

50.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich