Motivational Quotes

Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

- Brooke, Rupert

Best Quotes about Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

12.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

13.

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

14.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

17.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

18.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

19.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

20.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

21.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Croft, Roy

23.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

24.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

26.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

27.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

28.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

29.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

30.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

31.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

32.

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

33.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

34.

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

Law, William

35.

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

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

37.

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.

38.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

40.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

41.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

42.

My love admits no qualifying dross.