Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

11.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Capote, Truman

17.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

18.

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

Mcdonald, George

19.

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

Disney, Walt

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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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

23.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

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

Carmichael, Amy

26.

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.

27.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

28.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

29.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

30.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

34.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

35.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

36.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

37.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

38.

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

39.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

40.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

41.

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

Irving, Washington

42.

Love without attachment is light.