Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

Tracy, Brian

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

10.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

11.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

12.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

14.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

18.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

19.

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

Scherer, Paul

20.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

23.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

25.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

28.

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

Delp, Alexis

29.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

35.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

36.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

37.

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

38.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

39.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

40.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

42.

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

Swift, Jonathan

43.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

44.

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

45.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

47.

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

Osgood, Samuel

48.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

49.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

50.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen