Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rowland, Helen

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

10.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

11.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

13.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

15.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

16.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

19.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

20.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

21.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

22.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

23.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

24.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

25.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

26.

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

27.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

28.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

29.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

30.

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

31.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

32.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

34.

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

35.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

36.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

37.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

38.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

39.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

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.

41.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

42.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Carroll, Pat

45.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

46.

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

Carmichael, Amy

47.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

48.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

49.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

50.

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

Mansfield, Katherine