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

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

10.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

11.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

13.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

16.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

18.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

20.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

21.

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

Paolo Giordano

22.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

23.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

26.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

27.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

29.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

30.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

31.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

32.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

33.

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

Murdoch, Iris

34.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

36.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

38.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

42.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

43.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

45.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.