Motivational Quotes

Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

- Teasdale, Sara

Best Quotes about Love

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

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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.

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

Duras, Marguerite

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Thurber, James

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Donne, John

11.

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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

16.

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

West, Mae

17.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

18.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

19.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

22.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Scherer, Paul

25.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

26.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

27.

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

Peter Ustinov

28.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

29.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

30.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

31.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

32.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

33.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

35.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

38.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

39.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

40.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

41.

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

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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.

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

45.

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

Eliot, T. S.

46.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

47.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

49.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

50.

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

Lennon, John