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

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Youngman, Henny

10.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

12.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

13.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

15.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

16.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

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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

19.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

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

21.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

25.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

26.

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

Pythagoras

27.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

28.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

29.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

30.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

31.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

Dane, Frank

33.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

34.

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

35.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

36.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert