Motivational Quotes

Love

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Love

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

14.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

15.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

16.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

17.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

19.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

20.

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.

21.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

25.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

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

28.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

29.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

30.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

31.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

32.

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

Randy K. Milholland

33.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

34.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

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

36.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

37.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

39.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

40.

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

Mother Teresa

41.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

42.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

43.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

Scott Westerfeld

46.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

48.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La