Motivational Quotes

Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

- Reik, Theodor

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buscaglia, Leo

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

Proverb, Jewish

10.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

13.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

15.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

18.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

21.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

22.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

26.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

27.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

28.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

29.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

30.

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

31.

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

Auerbach, Red

32.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Confucius

34.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

35.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

36.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

37.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

38.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

39.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

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

41.

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.

Satir, Virginia

42.

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

43.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

44.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

45.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

47.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

48.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

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

50.

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