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

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

10.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

14.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

16.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

17.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

19.

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

20.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

21.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

22.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

23.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

29.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

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

31.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

33.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

34.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

35.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love, while you are able to love.