Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

William Shakespeare

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

11.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

12.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

13.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

14.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Capote, Truman

21.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

22.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

25.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

26.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

27.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

28.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

31.

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

32.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

33.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

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

35.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

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

37.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

42.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

43.

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

44.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

48.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

49.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite