Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

12.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

13.

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

Bridges, Robert

14.

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

Donne, John

15.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

16.

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

Auerbach, Red

17.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

18.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

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

Tracy, Brian

22.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

23.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

24.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Jane Austen

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

29.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

32.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

35.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

38.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

39.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

41.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

42.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

43.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

44.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

48.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

49.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

50.

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

W. Somerset Maugham