Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Love

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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

Tracy, Brian

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

10.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Bridges, Robert

12.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

13.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

14.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

15.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

16.

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

17.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

18.

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

19.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

20.

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

21.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

22.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

23.

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

24.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

26.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

27.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

29.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

30.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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.

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

John of the Cross, St.

35.

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

36.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

37.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

39.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

40.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

41.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

42.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

43.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Du Coeur

47.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

48.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

49.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De