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

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

10.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

12.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

13.

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

Willis, Bruce

14.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

15.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

16.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

17.

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

18.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

19.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

20.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

23.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

24.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

25.

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

26.

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

National Lampoon

27.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

28.

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

29.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

30.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

31.

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

32.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

33.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

34.

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

35.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

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

37.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

38.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

42.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

47.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.