Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Durrell, Lawrence

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

11.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

12.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

13.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

14.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

15.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

16.

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.

17.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

19.

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

Eucharista Ward

20.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

21.

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

22.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

23.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

24.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

25.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

26.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

27.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

28.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

29.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

30.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

31.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

32.

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

33.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

34.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

35.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

37.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

39.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

40.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

41.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

42.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

43.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

44.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

45.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

46.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

47.

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.

48.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

49.

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

50.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr