Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love stories never have endings.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Bridges, Robert

2.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

3.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

4.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

5.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

6.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

8.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

9.

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

10.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

Mother Teresa

12.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

14.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

16.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

18.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

19.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

20.

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

21.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

22.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

23.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

24.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

25.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

26.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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.

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

John of the Cross, St.

29.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

30.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

32.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

35.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

36.

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

37.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

38.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

40.

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

Delp, Alexis

41.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

42.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

45.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

46.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

47.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

48.

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

49.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

50.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John