Motivational Quotes

Love

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

14.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

18.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

19.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

21.

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

Anderson, Margaret

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

24.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

25.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

28.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

29.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

30.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

33.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

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

Fromm, Erich

35.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

36.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

37.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

43.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

44.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

45.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

46.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

48.

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

49.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

50.

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