Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Dryden, John

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

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

10.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

11.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

12.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

13.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

14.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

15.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

19.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

21.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

23.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

24.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

25.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

26.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

29.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Sand, George

31.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

32.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

33.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

34.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

35.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

38.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

Pascal, Blaise

42.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

43.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

44.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

46.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

47.

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.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

49.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

50.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson