Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

10.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

11.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

14.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

15.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

16.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

17.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

19.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

20.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

31.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

32.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

33.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

34.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

35.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

36.

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

37.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

38.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

39.

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

Jeanne Moreau

40.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

42.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

43.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

44.

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.

45.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

46.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

47.

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

Saltus, Edgar

48.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

49.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

50.

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

Pythagoras