Motivational Quotes

Love

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

11.

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

12.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

13.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

16.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

17.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

18.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

19.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

24.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

25.

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

Victor Hugo

26.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

27.

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

28.

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

Behn, Aphra

29.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

30.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

31.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

34.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

35.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

36.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

37.

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

38.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

39.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

40.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

42.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

43.

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

44.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

45.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

46.

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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

48.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

49.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.