Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Rita Rudner

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

10.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

11.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

13.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

14.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

15.

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

West, Mae

16.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

17.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

18.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

19.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Sand, George

21.

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

22.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

23.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

24.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

25.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

26.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

27.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

28.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

31.

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

Fox, Emmet

32.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

33.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

34.

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

Pythagoras

35.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

36.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

40.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

42.

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

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

44.

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

Vicious, Sid

45.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

46.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

48.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

49.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

50.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales