Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

Proust, Marcel

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

10.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

11.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

12.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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.

14.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

15.

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

16.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

17.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

18.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

19.

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

Peter Ustinov

20.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

21.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

22.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb

25.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

26.

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

27.

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

Buddha

28.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

32.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

34.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

35.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

36.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

37.

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

38.

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

Reagan, Ronald

39.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

40.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

41.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

42.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

43.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

45.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

46.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

48.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

49.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

50.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George