Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Behn, Aphra

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

10.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

11.

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

Martineau, Harriet

12.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

13.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

14.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

18.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

19.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

20.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

21.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

22.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

23.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

27.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

29.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

32.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

33.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

34.

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

Scott Westerfeld

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

38.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

40.

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

41.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

42.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

47.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

48.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare