Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Wilkerson, David

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

10.

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

Real Live Preacher

11.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

12.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

13.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

14.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

15.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Sophocles

17.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

18.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

19.

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

20.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

21.

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

22.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

23.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

24.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

25.

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

26.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

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

28.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

30.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

31.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

32.

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

35.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

36.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

37.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

39.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

40.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

41.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

42.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

43.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

44.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

45.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

46.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

47.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

48.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

50.

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