Motivational Quotes

Love

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

10.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

11.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

12.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

18.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

19.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

20.

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

Turner, Ted

21.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

22.

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

23.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

24.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

27.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

28.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

29.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

30.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

31.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

33.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

34.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

36.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

37.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

39.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

42.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

43.

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

44.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

45.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

46.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

49.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

50.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James