Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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

Real Live Preacher

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

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

10.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

13.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

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

Southey, Robert

21.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

22.

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

23.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

24.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

27.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

28.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

31.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

32.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

33.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

34.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

35.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

36.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

37.

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

38.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

39.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Rita Rudner

41.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

42.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

43.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

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

45.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

46.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

47.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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

49.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.