Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Love

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

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Law, William

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rossetti, Christina

10.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

12.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

16.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

17.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

18.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

19.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

21.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

22.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

23.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

24.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

25.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

26.

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.

27.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

28.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

29.

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

Barry, Lynda

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

32.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

33.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

34.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Scherer, Paul

38.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

39.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

40.

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

41.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

42.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

43.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

45.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

46.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

47.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

48.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

49.

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

50.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.