Motivational Quotes

Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

- Tebbets, Frank

Best Quotes about Love

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

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

Seneca

11.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

13.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

14.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

15.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

18.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

19.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

20.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

21.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

22.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

23.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

24.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

25.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

26.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

27.

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

Toni Morrison

28.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

29.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

30.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

32.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

33.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

34.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

35.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

36.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

37.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

38.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

40.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

41.

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

42.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

44.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

45.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.