Motivational Quotes

Love

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

Murdoch, Iris

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

10.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

12.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

13.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

14.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

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

Verse, A Haiku

16.

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

17.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

18.

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

Ferry, Brian

19.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

20.

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

Clark, Melanie

21.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

22.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

25.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

26.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

27.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

28.

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

29.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

30.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

33.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

34.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

35.

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

36.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

37.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

38.

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

39.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

Southey, Robert

41.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

42.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

43.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

44.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

45.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

47.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

48.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

49.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

50.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand