Motivational Quotes

Love

I shall always be a priest of love.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Margaret Cho

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

10.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

11.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

12.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

13.

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

14.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

National Lampoon

16.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

17.

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

18.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

19.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

20.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

21.

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

22.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

23.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

26.

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

27.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

28.

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

29.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

30.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

31.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

32.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

33.

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

34.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

36.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

39.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

40.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

41.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

45.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

46.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

47.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

48.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

49.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

50.

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