Motivational Quotes

Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Best Quotes about Love

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

Verse, A Haiku

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

10.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

11.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

12.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

13.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

15.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

16.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

17.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

19.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

20.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

23.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

24.

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

Reagan, Ronald

25.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

26.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

27.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

29.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

30.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

31.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

32.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

33.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

34.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

35.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

36.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

37.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

38.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

41.

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

Anderson, Margaret

42.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

43.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

45.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

46.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

47.

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.

48.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

50.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.