Motivational Quotes

Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Hazlitt, William

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

Pavese, Cesare

11.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

13.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

15.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

16.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

19.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

20.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

23.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

24.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

25.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

26.

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

27.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

32.

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

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

35.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

39.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

40.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

41.

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

42.

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

Behn, Aphra

43.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

45.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

47.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Richardson, Nick

49.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent