Motivational Quotes

Love

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Hoffman, Lisa

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

10.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

11.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

13.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

14.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

15.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

16.

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

17.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

19.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

22.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

23.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

24.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

25.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

26.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

28.

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

Proverb

29.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

32.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

33.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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.

36.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

37.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

38.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

39.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

40.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

41.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

42.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.