Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ferry, Brian

Best Quotes about Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

10.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

11.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

12.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

13.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

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

Bible

15.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

16.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

17.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

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

Donne, John

19.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

20.

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

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

22.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

26.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

27.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

28.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

29.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

30.

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

Burton, Robert

31.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

33.

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

Proverb

34.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

35.

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

36.

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

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

41.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

42.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

43.

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

Behn, Aphra

44.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

45.

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

John of the Cross, St.

46.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward