Motivational Quotes

Love

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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.

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

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

11.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Strindberg, J. August

14.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

15.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

16.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

17.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

19.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

20.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

21.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

22.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

23.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

26.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

27.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

28.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

30.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

31.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

34.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

35.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

36.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

37.

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

Carroll, Pat

38.

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

39.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

40.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

41.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

42.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

43.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

John of the Cross, St.

48.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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

50.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas