Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

10.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

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

Charles M. Schulz

12.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

13.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

14.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

15.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

17.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

18.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

19.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

20.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

22.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

23.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

24.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

25.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

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

27.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

28.

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

29.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

30.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

31.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

32.

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

33.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

34.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

35.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

38.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

39.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

40.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

41.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

42.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

43.

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

44.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

45.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

46.

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

47.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Burton, Robert

49.

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

50.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview