Motivational Quotes

Love

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

- Michael Patrick King

Best Quotes about Love

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

10.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Scott Westerfeld

12.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

14.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

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

Elizabeth Aston

16.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

17.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

18.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

19.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

20.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

22.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

23.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

25.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

30.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

31.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

32.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

34.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

35.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

36.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

37.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

38.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

40.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

44.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

45.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

46.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

47.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

48.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

49.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita