Motivational Quotes

Love

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Turner, Ted

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

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

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

10.

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

11.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

12.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

13.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

16.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

18.

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.

19.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

22.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

23.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

24.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

25.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

26.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

29.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

30.

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

31.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

34.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

36.

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.

37.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

38.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

40.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

43.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

44.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

45.

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

46.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

47.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Wieder, Marcia