Motivational Quotes

Love

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

10.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

11.

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

12.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

14.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

17.

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

18.

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

Allen, Woody

19.

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

Ovid

20.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

22.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

23.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

24.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

25.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

26.

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

27.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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.

29.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

30.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

31.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

33.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

35.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

36.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

37.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

38.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

39.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

40.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

42.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

43.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

44.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

45.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

47.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

48.

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