Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love stories never have endings.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Love

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

National Lampoon

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

10.

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

Vicious, Sid

11.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

13.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

14.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

15.

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

Youngman, Henny

16.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

17.

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

Parker, Dorothy

18.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

19.

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

20.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

21.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

22.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

24.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

25.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

29.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

30.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

31.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

33.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

34.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

35.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

36.

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

Duras, Marguerite

37.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

38.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

40.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

41.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

42.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

44.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

45.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

46.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

47.

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

Anouilh, Jean

48.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony