Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

11.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

12.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

13.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

17.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

18.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

19.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

21.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

22.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

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

Diane Ackerman

27.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

29.

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

30.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

32.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

34.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

36.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

37.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

40.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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.