Motivational Quotes

Love

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

- Marino, Michael Garrett

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

'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

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

16.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

17.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

19.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

20.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

21.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

22.

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

23.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

24.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

25.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

26.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

27.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

28.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

29.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

33.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

35.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

37.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Ferry, Brian

43.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

44.

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

Proverb, Irish

45.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

46.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

47.

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.

48.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

49.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare