Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

- Nin, Anais

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

10.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

11.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

12.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

16.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

22.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

23.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

24.

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

25.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

26.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

29.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

30.

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

31.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

33.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

34.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

37.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

38.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

39.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

40.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

42.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

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

47.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Auerbach, Red

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.