Motivational Quotes

Love

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Love

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

10.

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

Bible

11.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

12.

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

Buddha

13.

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

14.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

16.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

19.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

20.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

21.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

22.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

24.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

26.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

27.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

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

Sand, George

31.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

32.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

33.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

34.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

35.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

36.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

38.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

41.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

43.

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

44.

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

45.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

46.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

48.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

49.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

50.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia