Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

James, William

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Scott Westerfeld

11.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

12.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

13.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

14.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

15.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

16.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

17.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

18.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

19.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

20.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

21.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

22.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

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

Rita Rudner

24.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

29.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

30.

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

Mcdonald, George

31.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

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

37.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

40.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

41.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

42.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

44.

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

45.

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

Murdoch, Iris

46.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

47.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

49.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

50.

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