Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Love

1.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

2.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

3.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

4.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

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

Rossetti, Christina

6.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

7.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

8.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

9.

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

10.

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

Chambless, David

11.

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

Clark, Melanie

12.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

13.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

14.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

15.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

18.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

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

20.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

23.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

24.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

25.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

26.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

27.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

31.

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

32.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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.

34.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

35.

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

36.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

37.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

38.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

39.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

40.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

41.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

43.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

44.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

45.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

46.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

47.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.