Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Barry, Lynda

10.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

11.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

12.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

13.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

14.

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

15.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

16.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

17.

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

18.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

20.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

21.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

22.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

23.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

24.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

25.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

26.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

27.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

28.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

30.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

31.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

32.

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.

Horton, Doug

33.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

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

Duffy, Maureen

35.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

36.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

37.

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

Peguy, Charles

38.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

41.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

42.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

43.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

44.

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

Donne, John

45.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

46.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

47.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

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

W. Somerset Maugham