Motivational Quotes

Love

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Jeph Jacques

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Erica Jong

10.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

11.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

12.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

13.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

15.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

16.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

17.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

18.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

19.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

23.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

24.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

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

28.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

30.

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

31.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

32.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

33.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

35.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

36.

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

37.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

38.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

43.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

44.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

45.

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

Ackerman, Diane

46.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

47.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

48.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet