Motivational Quotes

Love

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

10.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

11.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

16.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

17.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

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

19.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

20.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

22.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

24.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

25.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

26.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

27.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

28.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

29.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

30.

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

31.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

32.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

33.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

34.

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

35.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

38.

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

39.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

40.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

41.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

42.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

44.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

45.

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

46.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

47.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

48.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

49.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

50.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.