Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Proverb, Spanish

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

10.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

11.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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.

13.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

14.

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

15.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

16.

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

17.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

18.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

19.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

20.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

22.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

24.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

26.

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

Proverb, French

27.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

28.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

29.

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

30.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

31.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

32.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

34.

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

35.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

36.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

37.

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

Byron, Lord

38.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

40.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

41.

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

Jeph Jacques

42.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

43.

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

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

45.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

46.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

47.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

50.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De