Motivational Quotes

Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

10.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

14.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Sand, George

16.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

18.

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

19.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

Ovid

24.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

25.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

26.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

27.

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

Proust, Marcel

28.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

29.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

30.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

32.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

33.

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

Rita Rudner

34.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

35.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

36.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

39.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

40.

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.

41.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

42.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

43.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary