Motivational Quotes

Love

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

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

Plato

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

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

10.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

11.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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

18.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

19.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

21.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

22.

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

Harrigan, John

23.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

24.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

25.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

26.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

28.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

31.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

32.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

33.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

34.

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

Donne, John

35.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

36.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

37.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

38.

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

39.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

40.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

41.

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

Confucius

42.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

43.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

44.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

45.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

47.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

48.

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

49.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

50.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen