Motivational Quotes

Love

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

- Carroll, Pat

Best Quotes about Love

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

12.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

13.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

14.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

16.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

17.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

18.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

19.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

20.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

21.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

25.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

29.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

30.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

31.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

33.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

34.

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

Reagan, Ronald

35.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

36.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

37.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

38.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

39.

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

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

41.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

42.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

43.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

44.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

45.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

46.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

47.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

48.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.