Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Parker, Dorothy

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

11.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

12.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

13.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

16.

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

17.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

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

19.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

20.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

23.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

24.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

25.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

26.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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.

29.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

30.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

33.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

34.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

35.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

36.

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

37.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

38.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

39.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

40.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

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

Pythagoras

42.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

43.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

45.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

46.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

47.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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