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

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

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Mooneyham, Stan

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

11.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

12.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

13.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

14.

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

15.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

17.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

18.

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

Buddha

19.

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

20.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

21.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

23.

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

24.

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

Horton, Doug

25.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

26.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

27.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

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.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

31.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

32.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

33.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

34.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

35.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

36.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

37.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

38.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

Seneca

40.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

41.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

42.

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

Elizabeth Aston

43.

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

44.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

45.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

46.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

47.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

50.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen