Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Love

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.

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

Byron, Lord

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pavese, Cesare

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

10.

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

11.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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

Burton, Robert

15.

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

16.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

17.

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

Bible

18.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

19.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

20.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

21.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

23.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

26.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

27.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

29.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

30.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

31.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

32.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

33.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

34.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

37.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

38.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

39.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

40.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

41.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

43.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

44.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

45.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

46.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

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

Sophocles

48.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

49.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.