Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

10.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

11.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

12.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

13.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

14.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

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

16.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

17.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

19.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

20.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

22.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

24.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

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

27.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

28.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

30.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

31.

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

DiFranco, Ani

32.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

33.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

34.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

35.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

36.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

37.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

38.

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

39.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

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

41.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

42.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

43.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

44.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

45.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

48.

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

49.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

50.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord