Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Delp, Alexis

Best Quotes about Love

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

Calvino, Italo

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Bible

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

11.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

12.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

13.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

14.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

15.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

16.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

18.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

19.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

21.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

22.

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.

23.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

24.

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

Proverb, Irish

25.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

26.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

31.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

33.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

34.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

35.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

37.

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

38.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

39.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

40.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

41.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

46.

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.

47.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

48.

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

49.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

50.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De