Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

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

Du Coeur

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

Connolly, Cyril

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

11.

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

National Lampoon

12.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

14.

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

Sarton, May

15.

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

16.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

17.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

Pythagoras

19.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

20.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

21.

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

Disney, Walt

22.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

24.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

25.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

27.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

29.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

30.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

31.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

32.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

33.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

34.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

35.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

36.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

37.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

41.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

43.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

44.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

45.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

47.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

48.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

49.

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

50.

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