Motivational Quotes

Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Love

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

10.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

12.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

14.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

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

Proverb

17.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

18.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

22.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

23.

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

Saltus, Edgar

24.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

25.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

26.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

28.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

29.

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

30.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

31.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

32.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

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

35.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

36.

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

Jane Austen

37.

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

Ferry, Brian

38.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

39.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

43.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

44.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

45.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

46.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

48.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

49.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord