Motivational Quotes

Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

13.

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

Brooke, Rupert

14.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

15.

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

Fromm, Erich

16.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

17.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

20.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

21.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

22.

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.

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

25.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

26.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

27.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

28.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

29.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

30.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

31.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

32.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

33.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

34.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

35.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

Ovid

37.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

38.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

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

40.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

41.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

42.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

44.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

49.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

50.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William