Motivational Quotes

Love

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

- John Sheffield

Best Quotes about Love

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

Seneca

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

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

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

10.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

11.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Bible

17.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

18.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

23.

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

24.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

25.

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

Eliot, T. S.

26.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

27.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

28.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

29.

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

30.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

32.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

36.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

37.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

39.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

42.

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

43.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

44.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

45.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

46.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

47.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

48.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

49.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

50.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.