Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't always get to choose what we love.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

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

Levine, Stephen

11.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

12.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

14.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

15.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

16.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

18.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

20.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

22.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

23.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

24.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

25.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

26.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

34.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

35.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

36.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

37.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

38.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

39.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

40.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

42.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

43.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

44.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

45.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

47.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

48.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

49.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

50.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler