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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Best Quotes about Love

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

2.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

3.

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

Turner, Ted

4.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

5.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

8.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

9.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

11.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

12.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

13.

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.

14.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

16.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

20.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

22.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

23.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

24.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

25.

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

26.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

27.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

28.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

29.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

31.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

32.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

34.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

38.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

39.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

43.

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