Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

2.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

3.

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

4.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

6.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

7.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

8.

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

Proverb, Jewish

9.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

11.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

12.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

13.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

14.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

15.

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

16.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

21.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

24.

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

25.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

26.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

27.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

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

29.

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

Brooke, Rupert

30.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

31.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

34.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

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

Jean Anouilh

36.

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

Ferry, Brian

37.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

39.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

40.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

41.

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

42.

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

43.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

45.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

Proverb, Japanese

47.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

48.

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

Turner, Ted

49.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

50.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William