Motivational Quotes

Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Love

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Bible

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

12.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

13.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

14.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

15.

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

16.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

17.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

19.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

20.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

21.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

22.

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

23.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

25.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

26.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

27.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

28.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

30.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

31.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

33.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

34.

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

Chambless, David

35.

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

Carmichael, Amy

36.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

37.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

38.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

39.

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

40.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

41.

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

Byron, Lord

42.

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

43.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

44.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

45.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

46.

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

Eliot, T. S.

47.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

48.

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

49.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

50.

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