Motivational Quotes

Love

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Euripides

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

10.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

11.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

13.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

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

Osgood, Samuel

15.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

16.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

17.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

18.

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

Elizabeth Aston

19.

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

20.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

21.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

22.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

23.

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

Margaret Cho

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

27.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

28.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

29.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

30.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

32.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

36.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

37.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

40.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

41.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

42.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

43.

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

Martineau, Harriet

44.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

45.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

46.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

47.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

48.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

49.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

50.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La