Motivational Quotes

Love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Bible

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Blanton, Smiley

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

10.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

12.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

13.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

19.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

20.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

21.

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

22.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

23.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

24.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

25.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

26.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

28.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

29.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

30.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

31.

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.

32.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

Brookner, Anita

35.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

36.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

38.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

39.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

40.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

41.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Ice T

43.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

49.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

50.

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