Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

- More, Hannah

Best Quotes about Love

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Duffy, Maureen

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

10.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

11.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

12.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

13.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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.

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

19.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

20.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

21.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

23.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

24.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

25.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

26.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

27.

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

28.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

30.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

31.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

32.

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

33.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

34.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

39.

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

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

41.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Proverb

43.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

44.

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.

45.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

46.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

47.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

48.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

50.

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

Hertl, Nick