Motivational Quotes

Love

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Love

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Elizabeth Aston

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

12.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

13.

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

Scherer, Paul

14.

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

Bailey, Pearl

15.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

19.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

20.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

21.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

John Sheffield

25.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

26.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

27.

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

28.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

29.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

30.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

31.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

32.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

33.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

34.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

36.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

37.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

38.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

39.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

40.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

41.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

42.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

43.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

45.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

46.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

47.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

48.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

We always come back to our first love.