Motivational Quotes

Love

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Love

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

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shakespeare, William

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

10.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

11.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

13.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

14.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

15.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

16.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

17.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

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

19.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

21.

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

22.

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

Irving, Washington

23.

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

24.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

25.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

26.

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

27.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

28.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

29.

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

Jean Anouilh

30.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

33.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

38.

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

39.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

40.

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

Proverb, Irish

41.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

42.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

44.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

46.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

47.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

49.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle