Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

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

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

10.

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

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

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

Mcdonald, George

14.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

15.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

17.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

18.

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

19.

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

Mother Teresa

20.

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

Reik, Theodor

21.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

24.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

27.

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

Brown, David

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

Proverb, Japanese

30.

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

Reagan, Ronald

31.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

36.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

37.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

38.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

39.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare