Motivational Quotes

Love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bertrand Russell

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Levine, Stephen

10.

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

Buddha

11.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

13.

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

14.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

15.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

16.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

18.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

21.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

22.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

23.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

24.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

25.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

26.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

27.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

28.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

29.

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

Brookner, Anita

30.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

31.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

32.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

33.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

34.

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

35.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

36.

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

37.

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

Irving, Washington

38.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

40.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

41.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

44.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

45.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

46.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

47.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William