Motivational Quotes

Love

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

2.

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

Mother Teresa

3.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

4.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

5.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

6.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

Eucharista Ward

8.

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

9.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

10.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

13.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

14.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

15.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

Desai, Yogi

18.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

21.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

26.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

27.

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

Randy K. Milholland

28.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

29.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

30.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

32.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

34.

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

Plato

35.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

36.

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

37.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

39.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

40.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.