Motivational Quotes

Love

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

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

National Lampoon

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

11.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

12.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

13.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

15.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

16.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

17.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

18.

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

19.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

20.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

21.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

22.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

23.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

24.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

25.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

27.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

28.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

32.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

33.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

34.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Davies, Robertson

37.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

39.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

40.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

43.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

44.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

45.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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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

49.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

50.

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

Mencken, H. L.