Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

- Verse, A Haiku

Best Quotes about Love

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

10.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

11.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

12.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

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

Strindberg, J. August

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Brown, David

21.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

22.

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

Nathan, George Jean

23.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

24.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

25.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

26.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

27.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

28.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

29.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

30.

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

31.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

32.

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

Mother Teresa

33.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

34.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

35.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

36.

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

37.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

38.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

40.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

41.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

42.

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

43.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

44.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

45.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

46.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.