Motivational Quotes

Love

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

10.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

11.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

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

Desai, Yogi

13.

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

Scherer, Paul

14.

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

Disney, Walt

15.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

16.

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

Eucharista Ward

17.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

18.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

20.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

21.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

22.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

23.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

24.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

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

Aristotle

26.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

27.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

28.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

30.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

31.

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.

32.

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

Buddha

33.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

35.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

Proverb

37.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

38.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

39.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

40.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

42.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

43.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

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

National Lampoon

46.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

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

48.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

50.

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