Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

- Calvino, Italo

Best Quotes about Love

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

16.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

17.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

18.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

19.

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

20.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

27.

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

Groening, Matt

28.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

29.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

30.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

31.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

32.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

33.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

34.

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

35.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

37.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

39.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

41.

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

Jeanne Moreau

42.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

43.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

44.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

45.

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

46.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

47.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

48.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

49.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De