Motivational Quotes

Love

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

10.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

13.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

14.

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.

15.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

17.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

18.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

20.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

21.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

22.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

23.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

24.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

25.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

26.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

27.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

28.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

29.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

30.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

31.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

32.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

33.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

34.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

36.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

39.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

42.

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

43.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

44.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

45.

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

Martineau, Harriet

46.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

47.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

49.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil