Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb

10.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

11.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

13.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

15.

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

16.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

17.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

18.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

21.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

26.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

27.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

30.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

31.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

32.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

36.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

37.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

38.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

39.

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

40.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

41.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

45.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

46.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

47.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

48.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

49.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

50.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare