Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

10.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

14.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

15.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

16.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

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

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

Delp, Alexis

20.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

21.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

22.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

23.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

24.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

25.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

32.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

33.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

34.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

37.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

38.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

39.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

42.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

43.

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

Clark, Melanie

44.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

45.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

46.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

47.

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

J. K. Rowling

48.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

49.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba