Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Love

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

Wilde, Kim

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

10.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

14.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

16.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

18.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

19.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

20.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

22.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

23.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

27.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

28.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

29.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

30.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

31.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

33.

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

Lennon, John

34.

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

Behn, Aphra

35.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

36.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

37.

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

Michael Patrick King

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

42.

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

43.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

46.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

48.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

49.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

50.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De