Motivational Quotes

Love

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Love

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Diane Ackerman

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

10.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

11.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Verse, A Haiku

14.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

16.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Groening, Matt

18.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Orwell, George

20.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

21.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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

Augustine, St.

24.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

25.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

26.

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

Randy K. Milholland

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

32.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

35.

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

36.

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

Heinlein, Robert

37.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

38.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

40.

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

Levine, Stephen

41.

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

42.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

43.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

44.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

45.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

46.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

47.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

48.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

49.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

50.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick