Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Love

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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.

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

13.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

14.

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

Croft, Roy

15.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

16.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Jean Anouilh

18.

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

19.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

23.

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

24.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

25.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

26.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

28.

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

Delp, Alexis

29.

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.

30.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

31.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

32.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

33.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

36.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

38.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

39.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

40.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

41.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

42.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

43.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

44.

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

45.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

46.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

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

Reik, Theodor

48.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.