Motivational Quotes

Love

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

- Marino, Michael Garrett

Best Quotes about Love

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Bible

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

10.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

12.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

14.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

17.

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

Ferry, Brian

18.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

19.

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

Pythagoras

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

23.

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

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

25.

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

Jeph Jacques

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

30.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

32.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

33.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

35.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

36.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

37.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

38.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

40.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

41.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

43.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

44.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.