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

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mother Teresa

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

DiFranco, Ani

10.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

14.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

15.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

16.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

17.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

18.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

20.

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

21.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

22.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

23.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

24.

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

Margaret Cho

25.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

26.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

28.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

35.

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

36.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

37.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

38.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

39.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

40.

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

41.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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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

43.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

44.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

46.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

47.

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

Heinlein, Robert

48.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

49.

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

50.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe