Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Love

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

11.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

13.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

14.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

15.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

16.

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

Bible

17.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

18.

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

Paolo Giordano

19.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

20.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

21.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

22.

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

23.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

27.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

28.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

29.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

30.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

31.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

33.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

34.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

36.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

37.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

38.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

39.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

40.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Pavese, Cesare

45.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

46.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

47.

We live in the world when we love it.