Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

10.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

13.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

14.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

15.

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

Ferry, Brian

16.

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

17.

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

18.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

19.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Peter Ustinov

21.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

23.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

25.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

27.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

29.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

30.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

31.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

32.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

33.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

34.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

36.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

37.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

Blanton, Smiley

41.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

42.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

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.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

46.

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

Jane Austen

47.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

48.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

49.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

50.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt