Motivational Quotes

Love

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Love

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

10.

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

Traherne, Thomas

11.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

12.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

13.

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

14.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

15.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

16.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

17.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

18.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

19.

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

Bible

20.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

21.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

22.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

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

Hay, Louise L.

24.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

26.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

27.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

28.

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

Augustine, St.

29.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

30.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

31.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

32.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

34.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

35.

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

Disney, Walt

36.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

37.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

38.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

39.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

42.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

43.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

44.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

45.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

46.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

47.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

48.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

49.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales