Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Love

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Dane, Frank

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

11.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

14.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

16.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

17.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

18.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

19.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

20.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

21.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

25.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

26.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

27.

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.

28.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

31.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

32.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

33.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

34.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

35.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

38.

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

39.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

40.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

41.

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

Jeanne Moreau

42.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

43.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

44.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

45.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

46.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

47.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

48.

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

49.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

50.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare