Motivational Quotes

Love

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

- Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Best Quotes about Love

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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.

10.

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

11.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

12.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

13.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

14.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

15.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

16.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

17.

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

18.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

19.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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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

24.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Sand, George

28.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

29.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

31.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

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

John Sheffield

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

37.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

38.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

40.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

41.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

43.

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

Layton, Irving

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

45.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

47.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

48.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb