Motivational Quotes

Love

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

- Pythagoras

Best Quotes about Love

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

William Shakespeare

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

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

11.

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

12.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

13.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

14.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

15.

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

Eliot, T. S.

16.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

17.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

18.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

19.

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

Martineau, Harriet

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Barry, Lynda

24.

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

25.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Rossetti, Christina

27.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

29.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

30.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

35.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

36.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

37.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

38.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

39.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

40.

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

41.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

42.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

43.

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

44.

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

Orwell, George

45.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.