Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

- Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Best Quotes about Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Behn, Aphra

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

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Layton, Irving

12.

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

13.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

14.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

15.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

16.

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

17.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

19.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

20.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

23.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

24.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

25.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

26.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

27.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

28.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

29.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

31.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

32.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

33.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

34.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

35.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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.

37.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

38.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

39.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

40.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

41.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

42.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

43.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

44.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

45.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

46.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

47.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

48.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

49.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

50.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.