Motivational Quotes

Love

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fox, Emmet

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

10.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

11.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

14.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

15.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

17.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

18.

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

Meredith, George

19.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

20.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

21.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

22.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

23.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

25.

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

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

28.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

29.

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

Reagan, Ronald

30.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

31.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

32.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

34.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

35.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

36.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

William Penn

38.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

40.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

42.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

43.

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

44.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

45.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

46.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

47.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

48.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

49.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

50.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen