Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

William Shakespeare

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

10.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

11.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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

Jennifer Aniston

13.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

14.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

15.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

16.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

17.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

18.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

19.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

24.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

25.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

26.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

27.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

28.

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

Byron, Lord

29.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

31.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

32.

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

33.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Barry, Lynda

35.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

36.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

37.

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

Hay, Louise L.

38.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

40.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

41.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

42.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

46.

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

Dane, Frank

47.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

48.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

49.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

William Shakespeare