Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

- Northern Exposure

Best Quotes about Love

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Kempis, Thomas

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Swift, Jonathan

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

13.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

14.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

15.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

16.

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

17.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

18.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

19.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

20.

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

21.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

22.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

25.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

26.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

27.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

28.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

29.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

30.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

33.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

35.

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

36.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

37.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

38.

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

39.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

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

Pascal, Blaise

44.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

45.

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

46.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

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