Motivational Quotes

Love

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

- O'Brien, Edna

Best Quotes about Love

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lennon, John

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

Dane, Frank

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

10.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

Charles M. Schulz

12.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

13.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

14.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

15.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

16.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

17.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

18.

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

Sophocles

19.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

20.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

23.

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

Jennifer Aniston

24.

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

25.

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

J. K. Rowling

26.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

27.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

30.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

31.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

32.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

35.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

37.

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

Jane Austen

38.

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

39.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

40.

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

41.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

43.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

44.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

45.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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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.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

49.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

50.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco