Motivational Quotes

Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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.

11.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

14.

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.

Trefusis, Violet

15.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

17.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

19.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

20.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

21.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

22.

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

23.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

24.

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

25.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

26.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

27.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

28.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

29.

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

Croft, Roy

30.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

31.

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

Parker, Dorothy

32.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

33.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

35.

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

36.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

39.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

40.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

42.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

43.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

44.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

45.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

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.

47.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

48.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

49.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

50.

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