Motivational Quotes

Love

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

- Gay, John

Best Quotes about Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

10.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

11.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

17.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

18.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

19.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

20.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

22.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

23.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

24.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

25.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

26.

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

27.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

31.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

32.

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

33.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

34.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

35.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

36.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

37.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

39.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

40.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

41.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

43.

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

Auerbach, Red

44.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

46.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

47.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

48.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

49.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Leunig, Michael