Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love stories never have endings.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Love

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

11.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

12.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

13.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

14.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

15.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

16.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

17.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

18.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

19.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

22.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Seneca

24.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

25.

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

26.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

27.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

29.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

30.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

33.

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

34.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

35.

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

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

38.

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

Victor Hugo

39.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

40.

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

Saltus, Edgar

41.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

42.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

44.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

45.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

46.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

48.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

49.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Angelis, Barbara De