Motivational Quotes

Love

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

13.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

15.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

16.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

17.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

20.

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

21.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

22.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

23.

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

24.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

25.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

26.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

27.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

30.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

31.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

32.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

33.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

34.

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

Levine, Stephen

35.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

36.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

37.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

38.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

41.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

44.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

45.

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

Proverb

46.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.