Motivational Quotes

Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

W. Somerset Maugham

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Scott Westerfeld

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

12.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

14.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

15.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

16.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

18.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

19.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

20.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

21.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

23.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

24.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

26.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

27.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

28.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

29.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

30.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Du Coeur

33.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

34.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

35.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

36.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

37.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

38.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

40.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

41.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

42.

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

43.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

44.

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

45.

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

Jerome, St.

46.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

47.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

48.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

49.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin