Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

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

Vicious, Sid

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

10.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

11.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

12.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

13.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

14.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

16.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

18.

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

19.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

20.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

21.

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

22.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

23.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

24.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

26.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

28.

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

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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.

30.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

31.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

32.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

33.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

34.

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

35.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

36.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

37.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

38.

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

Barry, Lynda

39.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

41.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

42.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

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

44.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

45.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

46.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

47.

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

48.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

49.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.