Motivational Quotes

Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about 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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Brown, David

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

12.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

13.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

21.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

22.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

23.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

24.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

26.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

29.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

30.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

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.

32.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

33.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

36.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

38.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

39.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

40.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

41.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

42.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

43.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

46.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.