Motivational Quotes

Love

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

West, Mae

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

10.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

11.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

12.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

14.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

15.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

19.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

20.

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

Willis, Bruce

21.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

23.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

24.

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

Traherne, Thomas

25.

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

26.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

27.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

28.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

29.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

31.

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

32.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

33.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

36.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

38.

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

39.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

41.

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

42.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

44.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

45.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

46.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

47.

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

48.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

50.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne