Motivational Quotes

Love

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plato

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

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

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Martineau, Harriet

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

11.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

12.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

16.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

18.

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

19.

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

Margaret Cho

20.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

21.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

22.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

23.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

24.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

26.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

27.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

28.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

29.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

30.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

33.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

35.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

36.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

38.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

39.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

40.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

41.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

42.

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

Augustine, St.

43.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

44.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

45.

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

46.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

47.

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

48.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

49.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

50.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine