Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

10.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

11.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

12.

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

13.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

15.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

16.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

17.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

18.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

19.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

21.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

23.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

24.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

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

Chanel, Coco

26.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

28.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

29.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

30.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

31.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

32.

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

Updike, John

33.

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

Martineau, Harriet

34.

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.

35.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

37.

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

38.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

39.

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

Swift, Jonathan

40.

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

41.

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

42.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

43.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.