Motivational Quotes

Love

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Richardson, Nick

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

10.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

12.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

13.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

14.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

16.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

17.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

18.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

20.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

21.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

22.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

23.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

24.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

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

Euripides

26.

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

27.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

28.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

29.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

30.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

31.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

32.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

33.

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

Federman, Irwin

34.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

35.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

36.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

37.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

38.

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

Proverb, Jewish

39.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

40.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

41.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

42.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

45.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Hazlitt, William

48.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet