Motivational Quotes

Love

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Love

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Brown, Rita Mae

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Rowland, Helen

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

11.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

12.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

16.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

17.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

18.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

19.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

20.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

21.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

22.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

23.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

24.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

26.

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

27.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

28.

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

Real Live Preacher

29.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

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

31.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

32.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

Hay, Louise L.

36.

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

Charles M. Schulz

37.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

38.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

39.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

40.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

42.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

44.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

45.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

46.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

47.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

48.

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

49.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish