Motivational Quotes

Love

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

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.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Layton, Irving

14.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

15.

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

Toni Morrison

16.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

17.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

18.

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

19.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

27.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

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

29.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

30.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

31.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

35.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

36.

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

37.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

38.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

39.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

40.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

41.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

42.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

43.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

44.

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

45.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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.

47.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

48.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

49.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

50.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.