Motivational Quotes

Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Best Quotes about Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bourget, Paul

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

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

Sarton, May

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

14.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

15.

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

Leunig, Michael

16.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

17.

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

Bible

18.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

19.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

20.

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

21.

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

Pythagoras

22.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

25.

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.

26.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

27.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

John of the Cross, St.

33.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

34.

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

35.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

36.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

37.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

38.

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

Bible

39.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

40.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

41.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

42.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

43.

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

44.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

46.

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

Davis, Bette

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Jane Austen

49.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

50.

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

Dane, Frank