Motivational Quotes

Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

1.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

2.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

3.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

4.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

5.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

6.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

7.

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

8.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Richardson, Nick

10.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

11.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

13.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

14.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

15.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

17.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

18.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

19.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

20.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

21.

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

22.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

23.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

26.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

27.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

30.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

32.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

33.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

34.

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

35.

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

Connolly, Cyril

36.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

37.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

38.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

39.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

40.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

41.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

42.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

43.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

44.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

47.

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

48.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

49.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

50.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld