Motivational Quotes

Love

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Love

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

Fromm, Erich

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Erica Jong

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

11.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

12.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

13.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

14.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

15.

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

Willis, Bruce

16.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

17.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

20.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

21.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

23.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

24.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

25.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

26.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

27.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

29.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

30.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

31.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

32.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

33.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

35.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

36.

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

37.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

38.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

39.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

40.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

41.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

44.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

48.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

50.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.