Motivational Quotes

Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

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

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

10.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

11.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

13.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

19.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

20.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

21.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

22.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

23.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

25.

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

John of the Cross, St.

26.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

27.

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

28.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

29.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

30.

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

31.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

33.

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

Confucius

34.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

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

Wieder, Marcia

36.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

39.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

40.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

41.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

42.

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.

43.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

46.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

47.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe