Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Love

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

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Confucius

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Sophocles

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Davies, Robertson

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

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

Duffy, Maureen

10.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

11.

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

12.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

13.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

14.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

17.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

18.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

19.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

20.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

21.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

23.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

24.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

26.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

28.

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

John of the Cross, St.

29.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

30.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

31.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

32.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

33.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

34.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

35.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

36.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

37.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

38.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

39.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

40.

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

41.

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

42.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

43.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

45.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

46.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

47.

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