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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

10.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

11.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

12.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

16.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

17.

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

18.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

22.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

23.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

25.

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

Layton, Irving

26.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

27.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

28.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

30.

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

Donne, John

31.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

32.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

35.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

36.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

38.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

41.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

42.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

43.

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

44.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

46.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.