Motivational Quotes

Love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

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

Euripides

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

10.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

11.

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

National Lampoon

12.

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

13.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

19.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

20.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

21.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

22.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

23.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

24.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

25.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

26.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

27.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

28.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

29.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

30.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

33.

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

Scott Westerfeld

34.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

Alan Watts

36.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

38.

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

Williams, William Carlos

39.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

40.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

41.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

42.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

43.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

45.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

46.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

47.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

48.

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.

49.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Reagan, Ronald