Motivational Quotes

Love

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

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

Jane Austen

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Turner, Ted

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

Guthrie, Arlo

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

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

National Lampoon

11.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Murdoch, Iris

13.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

14.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

15.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

16.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

17.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

18.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

21.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

22.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

23.

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

24.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

25.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

26.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

27.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

28.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

30.

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

Ackerman, Diane

31.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

32.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

33.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

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

Nathan, George Jean

35.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

36.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

37.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

38.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

39.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

40.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

42.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

44.

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

45.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

46.

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

47.

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

Bridges, Robert

48.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

49.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

50.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George