Motivational Quotes

Love

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

John of the Cross, St.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

10.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

12.

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

Jeanne Moreau

13.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

14.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

15.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

16.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

17.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

18.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

19.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

20.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

21.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

22.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

23.

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

Bible

24.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

25.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

26.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

27.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

28.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

30.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

34.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

35.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

36.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

Richardson, Nick

38.

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

Peter Ustinov

39.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

40.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

42.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

43.

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

44.

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

Federman, Irwin

45.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

47.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

48.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

49.

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

50.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare