Motivational Quotes

Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

10.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

11.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Kempis, Thomas

13.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

14.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

15.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

16.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

17.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

18.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

19.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

20.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

22.

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

Bailey, Pearl

23.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

24.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

25.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

26.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

30.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

31.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

32.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

33.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

34.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

36.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

37.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

38.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

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

Croft, Roy

40.

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

41.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

43.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

44.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

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

47.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

48.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

49.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

50.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.