Motivational Quotes

Love

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

- Crawshaw, Richard

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

10.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

12.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

13.

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

14.

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

Chanel, Coco

15.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

17.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

18.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

19.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

20.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

23.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

24.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

26.

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

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.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Bridges, Robert

34.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

36.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

37.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

38.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

39.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

42.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

43.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

44.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

46.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

48.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is all you need.