Motivational Quotes

Love

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

11.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

12.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

13.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

16.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

17.

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

18.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

19.

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

Jean Anouilh

20.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

21.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

22.

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

Scott Westerfeld

23.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

24.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Eliot, T. S.

26.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

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

Smith, Sydney

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

31.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

36.

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.

37.

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

Fromm, Erich

38.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

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

40.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

41.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

42.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

43.

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

44.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

45.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

46.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?