Motivational Quotes

Love

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

10.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

11.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Bertrand Russell

15.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

16.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

17.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

18.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

19.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

20.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

21.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

22.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

23.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

25.

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

26.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

27.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

28.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

29.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

33.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

34.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

35.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

36.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

37.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

39.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

40.

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

William Penn

41.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

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