Motivational Quotes

Love

Do all things with love.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Love

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

11.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

12.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

13.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

14.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

15.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

16.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

17.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

18.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

19.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

20.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

21.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

24.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

25.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

26.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

27.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

28.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

30.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

31.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

32.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

33.

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

34.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

35.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

36.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

37.

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

Parker, Dorothy

38.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Proverb, Jewish

40.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

41.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

43.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

44.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

45.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

47.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

48.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

49.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

50.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?