Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

11.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

12.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

13.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

15.

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

Chanel, Coco

16.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

18.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

19.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

20.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

21.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

23.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

24.

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

25.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

26.

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

27.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

28.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

29.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

30.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

31.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

33.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

34.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

35.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

36.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

37.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

38.

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

39.

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

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

41.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

42.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

43.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

45.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

46.

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

Groening, Matt

47.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

48.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.