Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Byron, Lord

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

10.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

11.

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

Leunig, Michael

12.

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.

13.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

15.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

18.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

19.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

20.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

21.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

23.

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

24.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

27.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

28.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

29.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

31.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

32.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

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

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

36.

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

37.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

40.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

41.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

42.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

43.

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

44.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

45.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

46.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

47.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

49.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hertl, Nick