Motivational Quotes

Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

10.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

15.

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

16.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

18.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

19.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

20.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

21.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

22.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

23.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

26.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

28.

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

Martineau, Harriet

29.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

30.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

31.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

32.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

33.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

34.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

35.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

36.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

38.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

39.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

40.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

41.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

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

43.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

44.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

45.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

47.

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

Crawford, Joan

48.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

49.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

50.

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