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

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

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

Jane Austen

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

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

10.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

Bertrand Russell

12.

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

13.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

14.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

Jeph Jacques

16.

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

Confucius

17.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

19.

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

Parker, Dorothy

20.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

21.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

22.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

23.

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

24.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Federman, Irwin

26.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

27.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

28.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

31.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

32.

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

Heinlein, Robert

33.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

34.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

35.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Scherer, Paul

37.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

38.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

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

Williams, William Carlos

41.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

42.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

43.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

44.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

46.

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

47.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

48.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

49.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

50.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew