Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Carmichael, Amy

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

2.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

3.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

4.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

5.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

6.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

7.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

8.

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

9.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

10.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

11.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

13.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

14.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

16.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

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

19.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

20.

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

21.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

22.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

23.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Hay, Louise L.

25.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

26.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

27.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

28.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

30.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

31.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

33.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

34.

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

35.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

36.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

40.

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

Sophocles

41.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

45.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

46.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

48.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

49.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

50.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert