Motivational Quotes

Love

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Best Quotes about Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

13.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

14.

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.

15.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

21.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

22.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

23.

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

24.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

25.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

29.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

30.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

31.

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

Chanel, Coco

32.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

33.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

34.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

36.

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

Updike, John

37.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

38.

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

Charles M. Schulz

39.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

40.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

41.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

44.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

45.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

46.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

47.

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.

48.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

49.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

50.

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

William Shakespeare