Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Love

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Youngman, Henny

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Eliot, T. S.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

10.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

11.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

12.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

13.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

15.

'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

16.

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

17.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

18.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

19.

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

DiFranco, Ani

20.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

22.

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

23.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

24.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

25.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

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

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

28.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

30.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

31.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Toni Morrison

34.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

39.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

40.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

43.

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

44.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

45.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

46.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

47.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

48.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

49.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

50.

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

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