Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

10.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

12.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

14.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

15.

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

Murdoch, Iris

16.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

17.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

18.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

19.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

21.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

24.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

25.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

26.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

27.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

28.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

29.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

30.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

31.

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

Jeanne Moreau

32.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

33.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

34.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

35.

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

36.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

37.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

38.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

39.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

40.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

42.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

43.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

44.

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

45.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

46.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

47.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is stronger than justice.