Motivational Quotes

Love

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

- Shan, Merle

Best Quotes about Love

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

Pilgrim, Peace

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

John of the Cross, St.

12.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

13.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

14.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

15.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

19.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

24.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

25.

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

26.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

27.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

28.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

29.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

30.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

31.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

32.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

33.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

34.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

35.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

36.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

38.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

39.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Euripides

41.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

Rowland, Helen

43.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

48.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.