Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

Bible

10.

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

Smith, Sydney

11.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

13.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

14.

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.

15.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

17.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

18.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

19.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

20.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

21.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

22.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

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

24.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

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

Clark, Melanie

26.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

27.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

28.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

29.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

30.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

31.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

35.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

36.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

37.

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

38.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

39.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

40.

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

Paolo Giordano

41.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

42.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

43.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

44.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

45.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

46.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

47.

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

48.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

49.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

50.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite