Motivational Quotes

Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Turner, Ted

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

10.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

11.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

12.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

13.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

15.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

17.

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

West, Mae

18.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

19.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

20.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

21.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

22.

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

23.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

25.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

27.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

29.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

31.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

33.

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

Peter Ustinov

34.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

35.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

38.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

39.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

40.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

43.

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

44.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

45.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

46.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

47.

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

48.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

49.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

50.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich