Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Love

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
Unknown

The superior man examines his heart, that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause for dissatisfaction with himself. That wherein the superior man cannot be equaled is simply this — his work which other men cannot see.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
Unknown

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Sophocles (495–405 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist

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

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader, Civil Rights Leader, Philosopher, Author

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
Unknown

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
Rollo May (1909–94) American Philosopher

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Unknown

The true one of youth’s love, proving a faithful help-meet in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.
Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American Theologian, Philosopher

Expect the people you love to be better. It helps them to become better. But don’t get upset when they fail. It helps them keep trying.
Anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Italian Monk, Founder of the Franciscan Order

With a strong affirmation of our goodness and a gentle understanding of our weakness, God is loving us—you and me—this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) American Theologian, Author

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783–1842) French Writer

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
Kate Chopin (1850–1904) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

Responsibility of any kind can seem intimidating and for this reason man may often be afraid of truly deep relationships with other human beings. A relationship suggests to him the most extreme of responsibilities. It implies a burden, a restriction of freedom, seldom the converse. A student in love class, for instance, commented, “I’ve always been afraid of deep relationship because of the responsibility it seemed to impose. I was afraid of the demands it would make of me and I worried I wouldn’t be able to meet those demands. I was amazed to find that when I did get the courage to form a relationship, I actually became stronger. I acquired two minds instead of one, four hands, four arms, four legs, and another’s world. In joining forces with someone, I got twice the strength to grow, with twice as many alternatives. Now it’s easier for me to love others. I am stronger and I am less afraid”. He had discovered an important insight.
Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919–99) British Novelist, Playwright, Philosopher

My God, these folks don’t know how to love—that’s why they love so easily.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

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.
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.
John Wooden (1910–2010) American Sportsperson

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
Unknown

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love last forever.
Unknown

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of yourself, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring; when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom? Life is not a holiday but an education? One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
Barbara Jordan (1936–96) American Lawyer, Educator, Politician

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