Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

- Ginsberg, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

William Shakespeare

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Davies, Robertson

10.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

16.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

17.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

18.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

19.

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

20.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

21.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

22.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

25.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

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

33.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

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.

35.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

36.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

37.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

38.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

40.

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

41.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

42.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

43.

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

44.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

45.

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

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

48.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

49.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.