Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

14.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

15.

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.

16.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

17.

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

Auerbach, Red

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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.

20.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

21.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

22.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

24.

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

25.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

27.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

29.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

31.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

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

Brown, David

35.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

36.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

37.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

38.

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

39.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

40.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

42.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

43.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

44.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

45.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Carl Jung

47.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

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

50.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian