Motivational Quotes

Love

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

- Maupassant, Guy de

Best Quotes about Love

1.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

2.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

3.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

4.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

5.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

6.

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

Richardson, Nick

7.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

11.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

14.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

15.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

17.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

18.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

20.

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

Rita Rudner

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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

23.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

24.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

25.

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

26.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

28.

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

Charles M. Schulz

29.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

30.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

31.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

32.

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

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Plato

35.

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

Blanton, Smiley

36.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

38.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

39.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

40.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

41.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

42.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

43.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

44.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

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

Du Coeur

46.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

47.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

48.

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

49.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

50.

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

Turner, Ted