Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Vicious, Sid

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Strindberg, J. August

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

13.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

14.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

15.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

16.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

17.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

West, Mae

19.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

20.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

22.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

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

25.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

27.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

28.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

30.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

31.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

32.

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

33.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

34.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

37.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

38.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

39.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Peter Ustinov

41.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

42.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

43.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

45.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

46.

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

47.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

48.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

49.

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.

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma