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

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hugo, Victor

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Jerome, St.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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

Hertl, Nick

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

13.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

14.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

15.

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

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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

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

19.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

20.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

21.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

22.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

23.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

24.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

25.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

26.

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

Jeanne Moreau

27.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

32.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

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

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

36.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

38.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

39.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

41.

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

Sarton, May

42.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

43.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

44.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

46.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

49.

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

50.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz