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

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Bible

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

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

10.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

11.

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

Disney, Walt

12.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

13.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Paolo Giordano

15.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

17.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

19.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

20.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

22.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

26.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

27.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

28.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

29.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

30.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

31.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

34.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

35.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

37.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

38.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

39.

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

40.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

41.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

42.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

44.

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

45.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

46.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

47.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

48.

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

49.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Auerbach, Red