Motivational Quotes

Love

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

- Prevert, Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

10.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

11.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

13.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Tracy, Brian

15.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

17.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

18.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

19.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

20.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

21.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

22.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

25.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

26.

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

27.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

31.

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

32.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

33.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

34.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

35.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

36.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

37.

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

38.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

39.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

43.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

44.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

45.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

47.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

48.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

50.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.