Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

- Yates, Douglas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Traherne, Thomas

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

10.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

13.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

14.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

15.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

16.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

17.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

19.

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

20.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

21.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

22.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

23.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

24.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

27.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

28.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

30.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

31.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

34.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

35.

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

36.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

37.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

38.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

41.

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

42.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

43.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

45.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

48.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

49.

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