Motivational Quotes

Love

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

John of the Cross, St.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

10.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

11.

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

12.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

13.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

14.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

16.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

19.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

20.

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

21.

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

22.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

23.

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

24.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

25.

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

26.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

27.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

28.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

29.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

30.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

31.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

32.

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

John of the Cross, St.

33.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

34.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

35.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

36.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Mcdonald, George

39.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

40.

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

41.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

44.

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

45.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

46.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

47.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.