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

1.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

2.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

3.

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

4.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

5.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

6.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

7.

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

8.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

9.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

12.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

14.

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.

15.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

16.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

17.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

18.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

19.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

20.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

22.

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

23.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

24.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

25.

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

26.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

30.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

31.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

32.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

33.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.