Motivational Quotes

Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

- Catullus

Best Quotes about Love

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Anderson, Margaret

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

11.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

12.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

14.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

15.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

Law, William

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

23.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

24.

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

Vicious, Sid

25.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

26.

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

27.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

28.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

29.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

30.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

31.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

32.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

33.

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

Osgood, Samuel

34.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

35.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

36.

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

Pavese, Cesare

37.

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

38.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

39.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

40.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

41.

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

42.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald