Motivational Quotes

Love

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

- Shan, Merle

Best Quotes about Love

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Swift, Jonathan

10.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

11.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

12.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

14.

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

15.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

16.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

17.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

18.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

19.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

22.

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

Bible

23.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

27.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

28.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

30.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

33.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

34.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

35.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

36.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

37.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

38.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

39.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

40.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

42.

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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

45.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

47.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

48.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

49.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

50.

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

Dane, Frank