Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

William Shakespeare

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Real Live Preacher

10.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

11.

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

Orwell, George

12.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

13.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

15.

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

16.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

20.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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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

24.

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

Jeph Jacques

25.

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

Clark, Melanie

26.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

28.

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

29.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

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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

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

33.

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

J. K. Rowling

34.

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

Euripides

35.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

42.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

43.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

44.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

Heinlein, Robert

46.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

47.

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

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De