Motivational Quotes

Love

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Love

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

10.

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

11.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

12.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

13.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

14.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

15.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

17.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

22.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

23.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

25.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

26.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

27.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

28.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

30.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

31.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

33.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

34.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

36.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

39.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

41.

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

Jeph Jacques

42.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

43.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

44.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

45.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

46.

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

47.

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

Brooke, Rupert

48.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

50.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland