Motivational Quotes

Love

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

- Marino, Michael Garrett

Best Quotes about Love

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

10.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

11.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

12.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

13.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

14.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

15.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

16.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

17.

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

18.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

19.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

22.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

24.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

28.

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

Updike, John

29.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

30.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

31.

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

32.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

34.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

38.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

39.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

40.

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

Traherne, Thomas

41.

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.

42.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

43.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

44.

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

45.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

46.

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

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler