Motivational Quotes

Love

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Kempis, Thomas

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

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

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

10.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

11.

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

12.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

13.

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

Desai, Yogi

14.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

15.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

Saltus, Edgar

20.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

21.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

22.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

23.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

24.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

25.

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.

26.

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

Delp, Alexis

27.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

28.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

31.

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

32.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

33.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

34.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

35.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

36.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

37.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

38.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

42.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

44.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

45.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

46.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

47.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

48.

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

49.

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

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von