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

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Duffy, Maureen

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

13.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

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

Mcdonald, George

15.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

17.

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

18.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

19.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

20.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

21.

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

Proust, Marcel

22.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

24.

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

25.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

26.

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

Sand, George

27.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

28.

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

29.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

30.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

31.

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

Davis, Bette

32.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

33.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

34.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

36.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

37.

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

William Penn

38.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

40.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

41.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

43.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

44.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

45.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

46.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

47.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

48.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

49.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

50.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De