Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

3.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

4.

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.

5.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

6.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

7.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

8.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

9.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

10.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

13.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

16.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

17.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

18.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

19.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

20.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

22.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

24.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

25.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

26.

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

27.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

28.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

29.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

33.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

34.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

35.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

36.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

37.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

38.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

39.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael