Motivational Quotes

Love

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

- Harrigan, John

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

2.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

3.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

4.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

5.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

6.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

7.

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

Jane Austen

8.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

9.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

12.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

13.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

14.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

15.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

16.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

17.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

19.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

J. K. Rowling

22.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

23.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

24.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

25.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

27.

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

28.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

29.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

30.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

33.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

34.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

35.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

36.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

37.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

38.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

39.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

42.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

43.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

44.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

45.

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

46.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

47.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

49.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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