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

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

10.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

11.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

12.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

13.

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

14.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

15.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

16.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

17.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

18.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

19.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

20.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Bridges, Robert

22.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

23.

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

DiFranco, Ani

24.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

25.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

26.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

27.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

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

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.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

31.

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

32.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

34.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

35.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

36.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

37.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

38.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

39.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

40.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

41.

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

42.

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

43.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

44.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

46.

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