Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Scherer, Paul

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

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

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

13.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

14.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

15.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

17.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

18.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

19.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

20.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

21.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

22.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

23.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

24.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

25.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

26.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

27.

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

28.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

30.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

31.

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

32.

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

Thurber, James

33.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

35.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

36.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

37.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

38.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

39.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

42.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

43.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

44.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

45.

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

46.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

47.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

48.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

49.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.