Motivational Quotes

Love

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

- Winterson, Jeanette

Best Quotes about Love

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Eucharista Ward

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

10.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

11.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

'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

13.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

14.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

15.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

16.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

17.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

19.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

22.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

23.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

25.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

26.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

27.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

28.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

30.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

31.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

32.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

33.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

34.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

35.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

36.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

37.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

39.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

40.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

42.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

43.

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.

44.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

46.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible