Motivational Quotes

Love

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

10.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

11.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

12.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

13.

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

14.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

15.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

16.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

18.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Paolo Giordano

20.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

24.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

28.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Eliot, T. S.

30.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

31.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

32.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

33.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

34.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

36.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

37.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

38.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

41.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

42.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

43.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

44.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Tracy, Brian

46.

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

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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

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

49.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.