Motivational Quotes

Love

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

11.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

12.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

13.

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

Confucius

14.

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

15.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

17.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

18.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

19.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

20.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

21.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

22.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

23.

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

DiFranco, Ani

24.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

25.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

26.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

27.

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

28.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

29.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

32.

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.

33.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

36.

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

37.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

38.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

39.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

42.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

46.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

47.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.