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

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

10.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

11.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

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

Seneca

13.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

14.

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

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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

16.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

17.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

18.

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

19.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

20.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

21.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

22.

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

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

24.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

25.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

27.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

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

John of the Cross, St.

29.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

30.

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

31.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

33.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

34.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

35.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

41.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

42.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

43.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

Hay, Louise L.

46.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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.

48.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

49.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

50.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett