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

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

Williams, William Carlos

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

10.

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

Scherer, Paul

11.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

12.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

13.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

14.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

15.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

16.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

18.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

19.

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

Bible

20.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

21.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

22.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

23.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

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

Charles M. Schulz

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

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.

31.

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

Pythagoras

32.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

33.

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

34.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

35.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

37.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

38.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

39.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

40.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

41.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Ackerman, Diane

44.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

45.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

46.

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

47.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

48.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

49.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

50.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John