Motivational Quotes

Love

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

- Jeff Melvoin

Best Quotes about Love

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

10.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

11.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

12.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

15.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

17.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

19.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

20.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

21.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

25.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

30.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Capote, Truman

32.

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

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

35.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

38.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

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

40.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

41.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

46.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

47.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

48.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

49.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

50.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu