Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

10.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

11.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

12.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

13.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

14.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

15.

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

Peguy, Charles

16.

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

Delp, Alexis

17.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

18.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

19.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

20.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

22.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Parker, Dorothy

26.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

27.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

29.

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

30.

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

Pavese, Cesare

31.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

36.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

37.

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

38.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

39.

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

Law, William

40.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

42.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

43.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

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

Seneca

45.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

46.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

48.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

49.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

50.

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