Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

10.

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

11.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

12.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

14.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

15.

Strong, Anna

16.

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

Dryden, John

17.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

19.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

21.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

22.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

23.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

24.

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

Jennifer Aniston

25.

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

Bible

26.

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.

27.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

28.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

29.

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

Bailey, Pearl

30.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

33.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

38.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

39.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

40.

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

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

43.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

44.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

45.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

46.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

47.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

49.

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

50.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De