Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

2.

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

3.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

4.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

5.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

6.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

7.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

8.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

9.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

10.

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

Clark, Melanie

11.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

12.

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

13.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

14.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

15.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

19.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

20.

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

21.

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

22.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

25.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

26.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

27.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

28.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

29.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

31.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

33.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

34.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

35.

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

36.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

38.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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.

40.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

44.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

45.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

46.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

48.

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

49.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

50.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther