Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

11.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

13.

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

14.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

15.

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

16.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

17.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

20.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

21.

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

22.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

24.

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

Aragon, Louis

25.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

26.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

27.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

28.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

29.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

31.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

32.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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.

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

35.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

36.

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

Jerome, St.

37.

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

Margaret Cho

38.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

39.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

40.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

41.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

42.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

43.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

44.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

45.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

47.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

48.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

49.

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

Levine, Stephen

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.