Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Leunig, Michael

Best Quotes about Love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

10.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

11.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

12.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Peguy, Charles

14.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

15.

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

Real Live Preacher

16.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

17.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

18.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

20.

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.

21.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

22.

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

Pavese, Cesare

23.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

24.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

25.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

26.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

27.

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

28.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

29.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

30.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

31.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

32.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

33.

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

John of the Cross, St.

34.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

35.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

37.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

38.

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

Wilkerson, David

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

Reik, Theodor

41.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

42.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

43.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

44.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

45.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Peter Ustinov

47.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.