Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Mooneyham, Stan

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

10.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Federman, Irwin

13.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

14.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

15.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

16.

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.

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

18.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

19.

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

20.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

21.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

22.

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

Blanton, Smiley

23.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

24.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

25.

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

26.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

27.

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

Tomlin, Lily

28.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

30.

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

31.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

32.

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

33.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

37.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Wilde, Kim

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

43.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

45.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

48.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

49.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

50.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.