Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Murdoch, Iris

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

10.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

11.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

12.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

15.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

16.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

17.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

18.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

21.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

22.

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

23.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

24.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

26.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

27.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

28.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

29.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

30.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

31.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

32.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

33.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

35.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

36.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

37.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

38.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

42.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

45.

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

46.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

48.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo