Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about 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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

10.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

11.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

12.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

13.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

14.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

15.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

16.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

20.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

22.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

24.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Jane Austen

26.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

27.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

28.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

29.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

30.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Connolly, Cyril

35.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

36.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

38.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

40.

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

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

42.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

43.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

47.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

48.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

49.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.