Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Byron, Lord

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

10.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

11.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

12.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

14.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

15.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

16.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

17.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

18.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

20.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

21.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

22.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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.

24.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

25.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

26.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

27.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

28.

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

Proverb, Japanese

29.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

31.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Saltus, Edgar

33.

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

34.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

35.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

36.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

38.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

39.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

40.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Toni Morrison

43.

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

44.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

45.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

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

47.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

48.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

49.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

50.

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.