Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Penn

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

10.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

11.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

12.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

16.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

17.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

19.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

20.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

21.

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

22.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

23.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

24.

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

25.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

26.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

28.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

31.

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

32.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

34.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

35.

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

36.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

37.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

40.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

41.

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.

42.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

43.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

44.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

45.

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

Croft, Roy

46.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

47.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

49.

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

50.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William