Motivational Quotes

Love

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

- Lokes, Harold

Best Quotes about Love

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

11.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

13.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

14.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

15.

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

16.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

17.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

19.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

20.

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

Dane, Frank

21.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

24.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

26.

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

Ovid

27.

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

28.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

29.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

30.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

31.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

32.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

33.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

34.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

35.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

37.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

39.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

43.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

44.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

45.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

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

47.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

48.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

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

50.

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

Eliot, T. S.