Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Willis, Bruce

Best Quotes about Love

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

Williams, William Carlos

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bible

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

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

11.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

13.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

14.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

19.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

20.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

21.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

22.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

24.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

28.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

29.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

30.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

31.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

32.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

33.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

34.

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

35.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

37.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

38.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

39.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

42.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

43.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

44.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

45.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.