Motivational Quotes

Love

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

- Flaherty, Edward

Best Quotes about Love

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

11.

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

12.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

15.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

19.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

20.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

21.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

22.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

24.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

26.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

27.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

30.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

31.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

32.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

33.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

34.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

35.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

36.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

38.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

41.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

42.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

43.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

44.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

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

Horton, Doug

46.

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

47.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

48.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

49.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

50.

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