Motivational Quotes

Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Michael Patrick King

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Updike, John

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

Turner, Ted

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

Steindl-Rast, David

10.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

11.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

12.

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

13.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

14.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

15.

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

Lennon, John

16.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

17.

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

Groening, Matt

18.

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.

19.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

21.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

22.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

23.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

24.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

25.

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

26.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

28.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

29.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

31.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

32.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

33.

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

34.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

35.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

36.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

37.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

40.

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

41.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

43.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

44.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

45.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

46.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

49.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.