Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

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

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

10.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

11.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Updike, John

15.

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

16.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

17.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

18.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

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

DiFranco, Ani

20.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Alan Watts

23.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

24.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

26.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

28.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

29.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

30.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

31.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

32.

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

33.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

35.

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

36.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

37.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

38.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

39.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

40.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

41.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

42.

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

43.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

44.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Behn, Aphra

47.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

48.

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

Proverb

49.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

50.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William