Motivational Quotes

Love

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Love

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

11.

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

Mother Teresa

12.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

17.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

18.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

19.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

20.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

22.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

23.

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

24.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

25.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

27.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

30.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

31.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Buber, Martin

33.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

34.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

35.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

36.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

37.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Bible

39.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

40.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

41.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

42.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

43.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

44.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.