Motivational Quotes

Love

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

- Dioum, Baba

Best Quotes about Love

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Dryden, John

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

11.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

14.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

15.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

16.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

17.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

20.

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.

21.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

22.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

23.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

24.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

25.

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

26.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

27.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

28.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

29.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

30.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

36.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

37.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

39.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

40.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

41.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

44.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

45.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

46.

We always come back to our first love.