Motivational Quotes

Love

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bourget, Paul

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

10.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

11.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

12.

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.

13.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

14.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

15.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

16.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

18.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

19.

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

Jane Austen

20.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

21.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

22.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

24.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

25.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

26.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

27.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

28.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

29.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

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

Eliot, T. S.

31.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

32.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

33.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

Pavese, Cesare

35.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

36.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

37.

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

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

40.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

41.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

42.

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

43.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

45.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

46.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

47.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

48.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

49.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

50.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.