Motivational Quotes

Love

I shall always be a priest of love.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

10.

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

11.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

12.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

13.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

15.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

16.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

17.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

18.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

20.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

23.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

24.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

30.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

31.

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

32.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

33.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

34.

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

Hay, Louise L.

35.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

36.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

38.

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

39.

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

Confucius

40.

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

41.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

42.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

43.

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

44.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

46.

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

Richardson, Nick

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.