Motivational Quotes

Love

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Love

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

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Hoffman, Lisa

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

10.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

11.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

13.

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

Jean Anouilh

14.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

18.

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

19.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

20.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

21.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

22.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

23.

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

24.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Hugh Elliott

26.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

27.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

29.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

30.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

31.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

32.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

33.

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

34.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

36.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

38.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

39.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

40.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

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.

42.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

43.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

44.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

45.

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

Bible

46.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

47.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

48.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

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

Carroll, Pat

50.

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