Motivational Quotes

Love

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

- William Penn

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

2.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

3.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

4.

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

West, Mae

5.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

6.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

7.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

8.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

9.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

10.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

11.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

14.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

15.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

16.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

17.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

18.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

19.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

20.

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

Layton, Irving

21.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

22.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

23.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

24.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

25.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

26.

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

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

29.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

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

31.

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

32.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

35.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

36.

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

37.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

39.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

40.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

41.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

42.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

43.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

44.

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

Byron, Lord

45.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

46.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

47.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

48.

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

Buddha

49.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

50.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon