Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Love

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

11.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

16.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

17.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

18.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

19.

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

20.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

22.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

23.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

24.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

25.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

26.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

27.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

32.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

33.

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

Verse, A Haiku

34.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

35.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

36.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

38.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

39.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

40.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

44.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

Confucius

46.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

49.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

50.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.