Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Clark, Melanie

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Aristotle

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

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

10.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

11.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

12.

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

Scherer, Paul

13.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

16.

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

17.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

18.

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

19.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

20.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

22.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

25.

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

26.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

28.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

30.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

32.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

33.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

35.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

36.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

38.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

40.

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

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

42.

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

43.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Orwell, George

45.

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

Bible

46.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

47.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

48.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

49.

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

Smith, Sydney

50.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales