Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

10.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

13.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

14.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

15.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

16.

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.

17.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

18.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

19.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

20.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

22.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

23.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

Davis, Bette

26.

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

Reik, Theodor

27.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

29.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

31.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

32.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

33.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

34.

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

Updike, John

35.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

38.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

42.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

44.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

45.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

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

47.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

50.

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