Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

3.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

4.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

5.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

6.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

7.

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

Peguy, Charles

8.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

9.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

10.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

11.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

14.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

17.

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

Proverb, Irish

18.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

19.

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

Tomlin, Lily

20.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

21.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

22.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

23.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

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

25.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

26.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

27.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

29.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

30.

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

Reagan, Ronald

31.

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

32.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

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

Verse, A Haiku

34.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

36.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

37.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

41.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

43.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

44.

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

Youngman, Henny

45.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

47.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

48.

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

49.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

50.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.