Motivational Quotes

Love

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

2.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

3.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

4.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

5.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

6.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

7.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

8.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

9.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

12.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

14.

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

15.

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

Dryden, John

16.

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

17.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

19.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

20.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

21.

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

Nathan, George Jean

22.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

23.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

24.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

26.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

27.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

28.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

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

Davies, Robertson

31.

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

Reagan, Ronald

32.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

35.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

36.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

39.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

41.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

43.

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

Parker, Dorothy

44.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

45.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

46.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

47.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

48.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

49.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

50.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina