Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Love

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Wieder, Marcia

10.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

13.

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

14.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

15.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

17.

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

18.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

Jeph Jacques

22.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

26.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

27.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

30.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

31.

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

Youngman, Henny

32.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

34.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

35.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

37.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

38.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

40.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

42.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

43.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

44.

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

Allen, Woody

45.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

William Shakespeare