Motivational Quotes

Love

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

2.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

3.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

4.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

5.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

6.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

7.

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

Jean Anouilh

8.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

9.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

14.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

15.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

17.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

18.

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

19.

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

Peguy, Charles

20.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

21.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

Aragon, Louis

23.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

24.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

26.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

27.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

28.

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

Wilde, Kim

29.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

30.

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

31.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

32.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

33.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

34.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

37.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

38.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

39.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

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