Motivational Quotes

Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Love

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

10.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

11.

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

12.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

15.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

16.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

17.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

20.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

23.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

27.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

28.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

29.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

30.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

31.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

33.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

35.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

36.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

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

39.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

40.

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

41.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Buber, Martin

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.