Motivational Quotes

Love

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

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

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

10.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

11.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

12.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

14.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

15.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

16.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Augustine, St.

19.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

20.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

21.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

27.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

28.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

32.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

33.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

34.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

35.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

36.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

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

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

41.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Byron, Lord

44.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

46.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

47.

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.

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Buddha

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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.