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

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Plato

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

11.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

12.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

13.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

14.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

16.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

17.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

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

19.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

20.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

22.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

23.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

26.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

27.

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

28.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

29.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

30.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

32.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Charles M. Schulz

35.

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

36.

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

Mother Teresa

37.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

38.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

39.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

40.

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

Buber, Martin

41.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Barry, Lynda

43.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

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

45.

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

Saltus, Edgar

46.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

49.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

50.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges