Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

10.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

13.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

14.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

15.

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

16.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

17.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

18.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

20.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

22.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

23.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

24.

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

Peguy, Charles

25.

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

Rowland, Helen

26.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

27.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

28.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

29.

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

30.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

32.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

33.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

36.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

39.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

42.

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

43.

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

Seneca

44.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

46.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

48.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

49.

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

50.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen