Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

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

Updike, John

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Augustine, St.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

10.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

11.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

12.

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

Duras, Marguerite

13.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

14.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

18.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

19.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

20.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

21.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

22.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

24.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

25.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

26.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

27.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

28.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

29.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

30.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

32.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

34.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

37.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

38.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

41.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

42.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

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.

44.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

45.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

46.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

47.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

48.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

49.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.