Motivational Quotes

Love

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Vicious, Sid

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

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

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

Brooke, Rupert

10.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

13.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

15.

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

16.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

18.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

19.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

21.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

22.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

23.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

24.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

25.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

26.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

27.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

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

Murdoch, Iris

29.

'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

30.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

34.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

35.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

36.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

37.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

38.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

39.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

41.

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

42.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

43.

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.

44.

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

Sophocles

45.

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

Laing, R. D.

46.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

47.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Dane, Frank

49.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

50.

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

Proverb, Japanese