Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Clark, Melanie

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Alan Watts

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

10.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

12.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

14.

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

15.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

16.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

19.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

20.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

21.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

22.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

23.

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

Jane Austen

24.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

25.

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

26.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

27.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

28.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Tracy, Brian

31.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

32.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

33.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

34.

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

Jerome, St.

35.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

36.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

37.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

38.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

39.

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

David Viscott

40.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

41.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

42.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

43.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

44.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

45.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

46.

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

Law, William

47.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

48.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

49.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

50.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert