Motivational Quotes

Love

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

11.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

12.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

13.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

15.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

16.

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

17.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

18.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

19.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Carroll, Pat

22.

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

23.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

24.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

25.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

26.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

27.

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

28.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

30.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

31.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

32.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

33.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

34.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

35.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

36.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

38.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

39.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.