Motivational Quotes

Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Carmichael, Amy

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

12.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

13.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

14.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

15.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

16.

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

17.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

18.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

19.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

24.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

28.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

29.

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

Carl Jung

30.

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

31.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

32.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

33.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

34.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

35.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

36.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

38.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

40.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

41.

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

42.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

43.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

44.

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.

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

48.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

49.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

50.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John