Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Buddha

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

11.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

12.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

13.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

15.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Willis, Bruce

17.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

18.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

19.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

20.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

21.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

22.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

23.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

24.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

25.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

26.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

27.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

28.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

29.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

30.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

31.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

Bible

33.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

35.

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

Jane Austen

36.

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

37.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

40.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

42.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

43.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

46.

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

47.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

48.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

49.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

50.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich