Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

10.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

14.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

15.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

16.

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

17.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

19.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

20.

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

Murdoch, Iris

21.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

22.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

23.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

24.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

25.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

26.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

27.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

28.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

29.

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

Horton, Doug

30.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

32.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

34.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

35.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

36.

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

Buddha

37.

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

38.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

39.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

42.

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

43.

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

44.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

45.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

46.

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

47.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

49.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

50.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De