Motivational Quotes

Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

- Tebbets, Frank

Best Quotes about Love

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

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

11.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

12.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

13.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

14.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

15.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

16.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

17.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

18.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

21.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

25.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

26.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

27.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

28.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

29.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

30.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

31.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

32.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

33.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

34.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

35.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

36.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

37.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

42.

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

43.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

44.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

45.

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

46.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

47.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

48.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

50.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim