Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

Eucharista Ward

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

13.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

14.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

15.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

16.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

17.

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

Jennifer Aniston

18.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

19.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

21.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

22.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

23.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

24.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

26.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

27.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

30.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

Sand, George

36.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

37.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

38.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

41.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

42.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

43.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

45.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

46.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.

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

48.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

49.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

50.

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.