Motivational Quotes

Love

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Love

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

10.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Mother Teresa

12.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

13.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

14.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

16.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

17.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

18.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

19.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

20.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

24.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

25.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

26.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

27.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

29.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

Strindberg, J. August

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

34.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

35.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

37.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

38.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

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

41.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

44.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

45.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

48.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

49.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

50.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde