Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

12.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

13.

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

Wilde, Kim

14.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

15.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

16.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

17.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

21.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

25.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

28.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

30.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

31.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

32.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

33.

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

34.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

35.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

39.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

44.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

45.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

47.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

48.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

49.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale