Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Bible

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

10.

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.

11.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

15.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

16.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

17.

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

18.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

19.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

20.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

21.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

22.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

23.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

25.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

27.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

28.

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

Osgood, Samuel

29.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Capote, Truman

31.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

32.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

33.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

34.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

35.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

36.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

37.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

38.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

40.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

41.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

43.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

44.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

45.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

46.

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

47.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

48.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther