Motivational Quotes

Love

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Willis, Bruce

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

10.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

11.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

12.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

13.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

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

Harrigan, John

15.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

16.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

17.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

18.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

19.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

21.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

22.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

23.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

24.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

27.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

28.

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

Eucharista Ward

29.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

30.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

31.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

33.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

34.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

35.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

36.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

37.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

38.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

39.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

40.

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