Motivational Quotes

Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

10.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

11.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

12.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

13.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

14.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

15.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

19.

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

Proverb, Jewish

20.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

22.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

23.

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

Peguy, Charles

24.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

25.

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

26.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

27.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

28.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

29.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

30.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

31.

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

32.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

33.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

34.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

36.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

41.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

42.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

43.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

44.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

45.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

46.

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

47.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

48.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

49.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

50.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.