Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Proverb, Jewish

2.

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

3.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

4.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

5.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

6.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

7.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

8.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

9.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

10.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

12.

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

13.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

14.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

15.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

16.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

17.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

18.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

19.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

20.

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

21.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

22.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

24.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

26.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

27.

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

Thurber, James

28.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

29.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

30.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

31.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

32.

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

33.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Anouilh, Jean

37.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

39.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

40.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

41.

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

Strindberg, J. August

42.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

44.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

47.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

50.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte