Motivational Quotes

Love

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Brookner, Anita

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

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

16.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

17.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

18.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

19.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

21.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

22.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

23.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

24.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

26.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

29.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

30.

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

John of the Cross, St.

31.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

32.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

33.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

34.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

38.

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

39.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

40.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

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

Eliot, T. S.

42.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

43.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

44.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

45.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

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

Swift, Jonathan

47.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

48.

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

49.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert