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

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Hugo, Victor

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

10.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

11.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

12.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

14.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

15.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

18.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

19.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

20.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

23.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

26.

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

Scherer, Paul

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

29.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

30.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

31.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

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

33.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

36.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

38.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

39.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

40.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

41.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

42.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

45.

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

46.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

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

Behn, Aphra

48.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

49.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

50.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.