Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

- Richardson, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

10.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

16.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

17.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

18.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

19.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

20.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

21.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

22.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

24.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Swift, Jonathan

26.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

30.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

31.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

32.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

33.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

34.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

35.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

36.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

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

Updike, John

40.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

41.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

42.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

43.

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

National Lampoon

44.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

45.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

46.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

47.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

48.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

49.

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

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug