Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buddha

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Elizabeth Aston

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Petrarch, Francesco

10.

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

11.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Reagan, Ronald

13.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

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.

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

Bible

17.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

18.

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

19.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

20.

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

21.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

23.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

26.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

27.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

28.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

29.

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

Toni Morrison

30.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

31.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

32.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

33.

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.

34.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

35.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

36.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

38.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

42.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

43.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

44.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

45.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

46.

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

Desai, Yogi

47.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

48.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

49.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

50.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George