Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Love

1.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

2.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

3.

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

4.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

5.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

6.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

7.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

8.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

9.

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

10.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

11.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

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

15.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

16.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

17.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

18.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

21.

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

Confucius

22.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

23.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

24.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Eucharista Ward

27.

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

Law, William

28.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

29.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

30.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

31.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

32.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

33.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

34.

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

Michael Patrick King

35.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

36.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

37.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

38.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

39.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

41.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

42.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

43.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

44.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

45.

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

J. K. Rowling

46.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

47.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

48.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

49.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De