Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Love

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

11.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

12.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

15.

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

Carmichael, Amy

16.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

19.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

21.

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

22.

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

Layton, Irving

23.

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

24.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

25.

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

Verse, A Haiku

26.

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

27.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

28.

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.

29.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

30.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

31.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

32.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

33.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

34.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

35.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

36.

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

Jane Austen

37.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

38.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

39.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

41.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

42.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

43.

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

44.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

45.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

47.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

48.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

49.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.