Motivational Quotes

Love

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

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

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

10.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

11.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

12.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

13.

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

14.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

15.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

20.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

21.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

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

23.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

28.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Murdoch, Iris

30.

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

31.

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

Jane Austen

32.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Victor Hugo

35.

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

Sophocles

36.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

39.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

40.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

41.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

42.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

43.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

44.

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

45.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

47.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Calvino, Italo

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh