Motivational Quotes

Love

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

- Joyce, James

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

10.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

11.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

12.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

13.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

14.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

15.

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

Leunig, Michael

16.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

17.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

18.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

19.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

20.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

21.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

23.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

24.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

25.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

26.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

27.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

28.

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

29.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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

33.

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

34.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

35.

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

James, William

36.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

37.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

38.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

39.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

40.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

41.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

42.

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

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

44.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

John of the Cross, St.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

49.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul