Motivational Quotes

Love

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

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

Harrigan, John

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

Osgood, Samuel

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Bible

11.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

12.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

13.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

16.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

17.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

18.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

20.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

22.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

23.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

24.

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

25.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

26.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

27.

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

Wilde, Kim

28.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

29.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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.

31.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

33.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

34.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

35.

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

36.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

38.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

39.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

40.

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

41.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

42.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

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

44.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.