Motivational Quotes

Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Euripides

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

10.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

11.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

12.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

13.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

14.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

17.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

18.

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

Bible

19.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

21.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

24.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

25.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

26.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

27.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

28.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

29.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

30.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

31.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

33.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

35.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

36.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

37.

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

38.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

42.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

43.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

44.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

45.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

46.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.