Motivational Quotes

Love

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

- Bernard, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Calvino, Italo

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

10.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

Connolly, Cyril

12.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

13.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

14.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

15.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

16.

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

17.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

19.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

20.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

21.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

22.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

23.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

24.

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

Harrigan, John

25.

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

Williams, William Carlos

26.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

27.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

28.

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

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

31.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

32.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

34.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

37.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

38.

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

39.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

40.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

41.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

43.

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

Swift, Jonathan

44.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

46.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

47.

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

Mother Teresa

48.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

49.

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.

50.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu