Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Bertrand Russell

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

11.

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

12.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

13.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

15.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

16.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

17.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

18.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

19.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

20.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

21.

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

22.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Michael Patrick King

26.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

29.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

35.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

36.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

37.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

38.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

39.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

40.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

42.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

43.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

44.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

45.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

46.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

48.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

49.

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

50.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin