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 the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

11.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

12.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

13.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

16.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

17.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

18.

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.

19.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

20.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

21.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

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

23.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Traherne, Thomas

25.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

29.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

30.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

31.

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

Lennon, John

32.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

35.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

42.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Confucius

44.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.