Motivational Quotes

Love

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

National Lampoon

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

10.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

12.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

16.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

17.

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

18.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

19.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

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

Buber, Martin

21.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

22.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

23.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

24.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

25.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

26.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

28.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

29.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

32.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

33.

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.

34.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

35.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

39.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

40.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

41.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

42.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

49.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August