Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Shakespeare, William

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

11.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

12.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

13.

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

14.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

18.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

19.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

20.

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

Proverb, Irish

21.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

23.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

24.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

25.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

26.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

27.

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

Margaret Cho

28.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

29.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

31.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

32.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

33.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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.

35.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

36.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

37.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

38.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

39.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

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

Hugo, Victor

41.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

42.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

47.

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

48.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

49.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

50.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry