Motivational Quotes

Love

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

- Jerome, Jerome K.

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Barry, Lynda

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

Aragon, Louis

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Donne, John

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Hay, Louise L.

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

10.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

11.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Seneca

13.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

15.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

17.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

18.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

20.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

22.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

23.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Tomlin, Lily

25.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

26.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

27.

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

Law, William

28.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

29.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

31.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

32.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

33.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

34.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

35.

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

36.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

37.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

39.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

44.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

45.

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

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

48.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

49.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche