Motivational Quotes

Love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Love

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

10.

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

11.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

12.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

13.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

14.

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

15.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

16.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

17.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

18.

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

Richardson, Nick

19.

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

Carl Jung

20.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

21.

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

Parker, Dorothy

22.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

23.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

27.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

28.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Capote, Truman

30.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

31.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

33.

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

Erica Jong

34.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

35.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

36.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

37.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

38.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

39.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

40.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

41.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

42.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

43.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

45.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

48.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

50.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare