Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Brooke, Rupert

Best Quotes about Love

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

Pythagoras

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Richardson, Nick

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

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

11.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

12.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

13.

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.

14.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

16.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

17.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

18.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

20.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

22.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

23.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

25.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

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

Peter Ustinov

27.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

28.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

29.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

30.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

33.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

35.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

36.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

38.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

39.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

40.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

41.

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

42.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

43.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

45.

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

46.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

47.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

48.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

49.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.