Motivational Quotes

Love

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

- Osgood, Samuel

Best Quotes about Love

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

10.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

11.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

13.

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

14.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

15.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

16.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

17.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

18.

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

19.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

20.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

22.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

23.

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

24.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

25.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

26.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

27.

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

Hay, Louise L.

28.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

29.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

30.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

31.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

32.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

33.

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

34.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

37.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

38.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

39.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

43.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

44.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

45.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

46.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

47.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

48.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

49.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

50.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.