Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

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

Ackerman, Diane

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

10.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

11.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

12.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

13.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

14.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

15.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

16.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

17.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

18.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

19.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

20.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

21.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

22.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

23.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

24.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

25.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

27.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

31.

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

32.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

33.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

35.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

36.

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

Murdoch, Iris

37.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

40.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

45.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

46.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

47.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

49.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare