Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

10.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

11.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

14.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

15.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

16.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

18.

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

19.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

20.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

21.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

22.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

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.

26.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

29.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

31.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

32.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

37.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

41.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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

43.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

44.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

45.

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

Randy K. Milholland

46.

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

47.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

49.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

50.

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

Delp, Alexis