Motivational Quotes

Love

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Love

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Confucius

10.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

11.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

14.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

16.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

17.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

20.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

21.

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

Brookner, Anita

22.

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

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

25.

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

Diane Ackerman

26.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

27.

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

29.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

30.

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

31.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

33.

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

34.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

35.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

36.

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

37.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

38.

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

39.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

43.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

44.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

45.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

47.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

48.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

50.

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

J. K. Rowling