Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Love

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

10.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

11.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

12.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

13.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

14.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

15.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

17.

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

Bible

18.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

19.

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

20.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

21.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

22.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

25.

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

26.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

Augustine, St.

29.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

30.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

31.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

34.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

35.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

36.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

37.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

38.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

40.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

41.

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

Wilkerson, David

42.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

43.

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

Tracy, Brian

44.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

45.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

49.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De