Motivational Quotes

Love

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

2.

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

Buddha

3.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

6.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

7.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

8.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

9.

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.

10.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

11.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

12.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

13.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

14.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

15.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

16.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

21.

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

John of the Cross, St.

22.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

23.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

25.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

26.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

27.

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

Jerome, St.

28.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

29.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

30.

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

Murdoch, Iris

31.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

32.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

33.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

35.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

36.

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

37.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

39.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

40.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

41.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

44.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

46.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

47.

We were two and had but one heart between us.