Motivational Quotes

Love

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

- Mitchell, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

3.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

4.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

5.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

6.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

7.

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

Lao-Tzu

8.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

9.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

10.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

11.

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

12.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

13.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

14.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

15.

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

Southey, Robert

16.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

17.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

19.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

20.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

21.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

23.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

28.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

29.

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

30.

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

Updike, John

31.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

32.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

34.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

35.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

36.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

37.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

38.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

39.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

41.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

45.

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

46.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

47.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

48.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

49.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

50.

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