Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Richardson, Nick

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

Crawford, Joan

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

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

14.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

15.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

16.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

17.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

18.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

19.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

20.

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

21.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

22.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

23.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

24.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

25.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

26.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

27.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

28.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

29.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

34.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

35.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

36.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

37.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

38.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

41.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

42.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

43.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

44.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

45.

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

Chambless, David

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