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

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Ferry, Brian

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Jeph Jacques

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

10.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

11.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

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

13.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

14.

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

Rossetti, Christina

15.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

19.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

21.

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

22.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

23.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

25.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

27.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

30.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

33.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

34.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

35.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

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

Carl Jung

37.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

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

39.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

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

Croft, Roy

41.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

42.

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

43.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.