Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

William Shakespeare

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

10.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

16.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

17.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

18.

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

Davies, Robertson

19.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

23.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

24.

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

25.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

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

27.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

29.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

30.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

31.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

34.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

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

36.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

38.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

39.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

40.

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

41.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

42.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

43.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

44.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

45.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

46.

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

47.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

48.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

49.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

50.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?