Motivational Quotes

Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

10.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

11.

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

Jeph Jacques

12.

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

13.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

14.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

15.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

18.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

21.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

22.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

23.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

24.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

25.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

26.

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

Aragon, Louis

27.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

28.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

29.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

30.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

31.

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

Kempis, Thomas

32.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

33.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

34.

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

Erica Jong

35.

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

36.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

37.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

39.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

40.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

41.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

42.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

45.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

46.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

48.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

49.

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

50.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil