Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

William Shakespeare

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Paolo Giordano

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

Shakespeare, William

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

11.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

14.

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

Wilkerson, David

15.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

17.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

18.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

22.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

23.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

26.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

29.

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

30.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

31.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

33.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

34.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

36.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.

40.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

41.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

42.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

44.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

47.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

49.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare