Motivational Quotes

Love

Love without attachment is light.

- Brown, Norman O.

Best Quotes about Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

10.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

11.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

12.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

Victor Hugo

14.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

15.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

16.

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

Augustine, St.

17.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

18.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

20.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

21.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

22.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

23.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

24.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

25.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

26.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

27.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

28.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

29.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

30.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

31.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

32.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

33.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

34.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

36.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

37.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

39.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

41.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

42.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

43.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

44.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.