Motivational Quotes

Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

- Brooke, Rupert

Best Quotes about Love

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

11.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

12.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

13.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

15.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

16.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

17.

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

Sophocles

18.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

19.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

21.

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

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

24.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

25.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

27.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

28.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

32.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

34.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

35.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

39.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

40.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

41.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

44.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

47.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

49.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

50.

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