Motivational Quotes

Love

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

- Saltus, Edgar

Best Quotes about Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

10.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

11.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

12.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

13.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

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.

15.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

16.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

18.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

19.

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

Fromm, Erich

20.

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

21.

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

Pavese, Cesare

22.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

23.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

25.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

26.

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

Heinlein, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

Randy K. Milholland

29.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

30.

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

31.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

32.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

33.

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

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Levine, Stephen

36.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

37.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

38.

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

Carl Jung

39.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

40.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

41.

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

Hay, Louise L.

42.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

43.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

44.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

45.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

46.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

50.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco