Motivational Quotes

Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

3.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

4.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

5.

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

6.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

7.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

8.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

9.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

12.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

13.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

14.

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

15.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

16.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

17.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

19.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

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

Sand, George

22.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

23.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

24.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

25.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

26.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

27.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

28.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

30.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

33.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

34.

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

Federman, Irwin

35.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

36.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

Hay, Louise L.

38.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

39.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

40.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

41.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

42.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

43.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

44.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

46.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

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

48.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

50.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin