Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Ferry, Brian

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

10.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

11.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

12.

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.

13.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

14.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

15.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

16.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

21.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

22.

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

23.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

24.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

27.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

28.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

31.

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

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

34.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

35.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

36.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

37.

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

38.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

39.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

42.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

43.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

44.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Proverb, Jewish

48.

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

49.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.