Motivational Quotes

Love

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Love

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

David Viscott

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Anouilh, Jean

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

10.

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

11.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

12.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

13.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

14.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

15.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

16.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

17.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

18.

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

19.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

20.

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

Laing, R. D.

21.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

22.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

23.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

24.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

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

Tracy, Brian

29.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

30.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

32.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

33.

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

34.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

35.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

38.

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

Dryden, John

39.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

40.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

42.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

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

44.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

46.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

48.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

49.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

50.

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

Turner, Ted