Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

- Childs, Williams

Best Quotes about Love

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Menninger, Karl A.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Murdoch, Iris

10.

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

Turner, Ted

11.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

12.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

13.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

14.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

15.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

16.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

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

Jean Anouilh

18.

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

19.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

20.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

21.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

22.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

23.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

24.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

26.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

28.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

29.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Buber, Martin

31.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

32.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

33.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

34.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

35.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

36.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

37.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

39.

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

Wieder, Marcia

40.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

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

Scott Westerfeld

45.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

46.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

47.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

48.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

50.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster