Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Scherer, Paul

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

10.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

11.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

12.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

14.

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

15.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

19.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

23.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Toni Morrison

25.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

26.

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

Jeph Jacques

27.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

28.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

29.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

31.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

32.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

33.

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

Youngman, Henny

34.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

35.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Updike, John

40.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

41.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

42.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

43.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

44.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

45.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

46.

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

Barry, Lynda

47.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.