Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

10.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Proverb, Jewish

13.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

14.

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

Brooke, Rupert

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

17.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

19.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

20.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

21.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

22.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

23.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

26.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

27.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

28.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

29.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

30.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

31.

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

32.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

34.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

35.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

37.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

38.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

39.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

40.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

43.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

44.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

45.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

46.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

48.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.