Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Chambless, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Buscaglia, Leo

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

10.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

11.

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

12.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

13.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

14.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

15.

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

Julie Morgenstern

16.

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

Scott Westerfeld

17.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

18.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

21.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

23.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

25.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

26.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

29.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

30.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

31.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

32.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

33.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

34.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

35.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

36.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

37.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

38.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

39.

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

Duras, Marguerite

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

43.

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

44.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

45.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

46.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

47.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

48.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

49.

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

Orwell, George

50.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne