Motivational Quotes

Love

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Love

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lewis, Sinclair

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

10.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

11.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

12.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

13.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

14.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

15.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

16.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

20.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

23.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Margaret Cho

26.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

27.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

28.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

30.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

31.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

32.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

33.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

34.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

35.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

36.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

37.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

38.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

39.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

40.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

43.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

44.

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

45.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

47.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

49.

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

50.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul