Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

- Northern Exposure

Best Quotes about Love

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

10.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

11.

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.

12.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

13.

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

Jeph Jacques

14.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

15.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

16.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

21.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

22.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

23.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

25.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

26.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

28.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

31.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

34.

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

Youngman, Henny

35.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

36.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

37.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

38.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

39.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

40.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

41.

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

42.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

43.

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

44.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

45.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

46.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

47.

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.

48.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

49.

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

50.

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

Updike, John