Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

- Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

10.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

12.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

13.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

15.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

16.

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

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

19.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

23.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

24.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

25.

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.

26.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

28.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

29.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

30.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

33.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

34.

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

35.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

36.

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

37.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

38.

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

39.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

40.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

41.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

42.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

43.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

44.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

45.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

46.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

48.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

49.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato