Motivational Quotes

Love

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Clark, Melanie

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

Seneca

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

10.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

11.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

12.

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

13.

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

14.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

15.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

16.

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

Jean Anouilh

17.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

18.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

19.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

20.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

22.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

24.

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

25.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

26.

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

Jerome, St.

27.

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

28.

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

Charles M. Schulz

29.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

30.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

31.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

32.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

34.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Capote, Truman

44.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

Dane, Frank

46.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

47.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

49.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

50.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone