Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Irving, Washington

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Duffy, Maureen

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

Willis, Bruce

10.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

11.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

12.

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

13.

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

Jean Anouilh

14.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

16.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

17.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

18.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

19.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

23.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

24.

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

25.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

27.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

28.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

29.

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

Capote, Truman

30.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

32.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

33.

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

Desai, Yogi

34.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

37.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

38.

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

Jane Austen

39.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

40.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

42.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

43.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

44.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

47.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

49.

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

50.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily