Motivational Quotes

Love

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

- Jerome, Jerome K.

Best Quotes about Love

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

10.

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

Mother Teresa

11.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

13.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

15.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

16.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

17.

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

Charles M. Schulz

18.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

19.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

20.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

21.

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

22.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

23.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

24.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

25.

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

26.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

27.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

29.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

30.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

31.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

32.

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

Desai, Yogi

33.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

34.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

36.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

37.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

38.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

41.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

42.

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

43.

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

Groening, Matt

44.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

45.

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

46.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

49.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

50.

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