Motivational Quotes

Love

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

- James, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

11.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

13.

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

14.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

15.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

16.

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

Hugo, Victor

17.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

18.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

19.

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

20.

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

21.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

22.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

23.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

26.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

27.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

28.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

29.

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

30.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

31.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

32.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

33.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

34.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

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

Alan Watts

39.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

40.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

42.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

44.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

45.

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

Brookner, Anita

46.

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

47.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

48.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

50.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche