Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Love

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Allen, Woody

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Elizabeth Aston

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

11.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

12.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

13.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

14.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

15.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

16.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

17.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

20.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

21.

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

22.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

23.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

24.

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

25.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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.

29.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

30.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

31.

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

DiFranco, Ani

32.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

33.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

34.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

35.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

37.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

38.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

41.

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

42.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

43.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

45.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

46.

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

47.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

48.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

50.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De