Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Angelis, Barbara De

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

11.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

12.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

13.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

14.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

15.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

16.

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

17.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

18.

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.

19.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

20.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

21.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

22.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

23.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

27.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

28.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

29.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

32.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

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

Heinlein, Robert

34.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

37.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

38.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

39.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

43.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

44.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

45.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

46.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

48.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

50.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!