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

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

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Alan Watts

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

10.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

13.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

15.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

17.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

19.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

22.

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

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

25.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

27.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

28.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

29.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

30.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

31.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

32.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

33.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

38.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

40.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

41.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

42.

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

Paolo Giordano

43.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

45.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

46.

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

47.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

48.

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

Burton, Robert

49.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

50.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert