Motivational Quotes

Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

- Alan Watts

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

10.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

13.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

16.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

18.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

20.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

21.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

22.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

24.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

25.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

26.

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

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

29.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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.

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

34.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

36.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

37.

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

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

42.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

43.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

44.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

45.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

49.

Every man loves what he is good at.