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

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

10.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

11.

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

Victor Hugo

12.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

13.

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

Fox, Emmet

14.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

17.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

Seneca

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

22.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

23.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

24.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

25.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Paolo Giordano

27.

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

28.

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

29.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

30.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

31.

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

32.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

33.

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

34.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

36.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

38.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

39.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

40.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

41.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

45.

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.

46.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

47.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

48.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

49.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May