Motivational Quotes

Love

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

1.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

2.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

3.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

4.

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

5.

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

Hay, Louise L.

6.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

7.

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

Willis, Bruce

8.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

9.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

11.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

13.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

14.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

15.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

16.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

17.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

18.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

21.

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

Delp, Alexis

22.

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

Buddha

23.

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

24.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

25.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

26.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

27.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

28.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

29.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

30.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

31.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

33.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

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

35.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

36.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

37.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

38.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

39.

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

Margaret Cho

40.

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

Jeanne Moreau

41.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

42.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

43.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

45.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

48.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

49.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.