Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

10.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

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.

12.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

13.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

14.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

15.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

19.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

20.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

21.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

22.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

23.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

24.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

26.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

27.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

28.

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

Diane Ackerman

29.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

30.

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

31.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

32.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

33.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

37.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

40.

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

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

43.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

44.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

45.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

46.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

47.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

48.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

49.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

50.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare