Motivational Quotes

Love

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

- Gay, John

Best Quotes about Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

12.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Horton, Doug

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 is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

17.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

18.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

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

20.

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

David Viscott

21.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

25.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

27.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

28.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

31.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

32.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

34.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

35.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

36.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

37.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

38.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

39.

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

40.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

41.

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

Proverb, French

42.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

43.

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

44.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

Sophocles

46.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

49.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

50.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner