Motivational Quotes

Love

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Auvil, Myrtle

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

Brooke, Rupert

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

12.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

15.

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

Murdoch, Iris

16.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

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

21.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

22.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

24.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

25.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

26.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

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

28.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

29.

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

30.

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

Brown, David

31.

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

Orwell, George

32.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

33.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

37.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

38.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

39.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

40.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

41.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

42.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

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

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

46.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.