Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ashley, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

14.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

16.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

18.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

19.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

20.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

21.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

23.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

24.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

25.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

26.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

27.

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

28.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

29.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Bridges, Robert

31.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

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

Carl Jung

33.

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

34.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

35.

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

36.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

37.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

38.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

39.

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

Swift, Jonathan

40.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

42.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

44.

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

45.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

46.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

47.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

48.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.