Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

West, Mae

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

10.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

11.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

12.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

13.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

15.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

16.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

17.

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

18.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

19.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

20.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

21.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

22.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

26.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

29.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

30.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

31.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

33.

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

Brown, David

34.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

39.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.