Motivational Quotes

Love

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

- Prevert, Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

11.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

16.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

17.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

DiFranco, Ani

20.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

22.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

23.

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

24.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

25.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

26.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

27.

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

28.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

29.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

30.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

31.

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

32.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

34.

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.

35.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

36.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

37.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

38.

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

39.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

40.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

41.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

42.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

43.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

44.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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