Motivational Quotes

Love

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Bible

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

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

10.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

11.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

12.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

15.

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

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

18.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

21.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

23.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

26.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

27.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

29.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

31.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

32.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

33.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

34.

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

35.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

36.

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

37.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

38.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

39.

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

Bertrand Russell

40.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

41.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

42.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

43.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

45.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

47.

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

Mcdonald, George

48.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

49.

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

50.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von