Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gordon, Rabbi J.

Best Quotes about Love

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

James, William

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

10.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

12.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

13.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

15.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

16.

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

Traherne, Thomas

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

21.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

22.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

23.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

25.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

26.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

29.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

30.

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

Croft, Roy

31.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

32.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

33.

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

Capote, Truman

34.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

36.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

37.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

38.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

39.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

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

41.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

42.

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

43.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

44.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

45.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

47.

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

48.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

49.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

50.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette