Motivational Quotes

Love

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

2.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

3.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

4.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

5.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

6.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

7.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

8.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

9.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

10.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

11.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

12.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

13.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

14.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

15.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

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

Tracy, Brian

18.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

23.

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

Croft, Roy

24.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

25.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

26.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

30.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

31.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

32.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

33.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

34.

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

Clark, Melanie

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Wilde, Kim

37.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

42.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

45.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

46.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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