Motivational Quotes

Love

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

- National Lampoon

Best Quotes about Love

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

10.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

11.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

15.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

16.

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

17.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

18.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

19.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

20.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

21.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

22.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

24.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

25.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

26.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

27.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

29.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

31.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

32.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

36.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

37.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

38.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

39.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

40.

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

Bible

41.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

42.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

43.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

45.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

46.

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

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

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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

49.

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

Southey, Robert

50.

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