Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

2.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

3.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

4.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

5.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

6.

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

Wilde, Oscar

7.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

8.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

9.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

10.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

12.

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

Hay, Louise L.

13.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

14.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

15.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

16.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

17.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

18.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

20.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

22.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

23.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

24.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

25.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

26.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

28.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

29.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

31.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

32.

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

Davies, Robertson

33.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

34.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

35.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

36.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

38.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

40.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

41.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

42.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

43.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

44.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

46.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

47.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

48.

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

49.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

50.

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