Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

Chambless, David

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

11.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

13.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

14.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

17.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

18.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

19.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

20.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

21.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

22.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

23.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

24.

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

Verse, A Haiku

25.

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

Randy K. Milholland

26.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

27.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

28.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

29.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

30.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

31.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

32.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

33.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

35.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

36.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

37.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

38.

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

39.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

40.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

41.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

42.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

44.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

45.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

46.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

47.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

48.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?