Motivational Quotes

Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Love

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

Confucius

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

10.

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.

11.

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.

12.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

13.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

15.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

16.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

18.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

22.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

23.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

24.

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

Rossetti, Christina

25.

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

26.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

27.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

31.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

32.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

33.

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

34.

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

Wilkerson, David

35.

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

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

38.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

39.

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

40.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

43.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

44.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

45.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

46.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

47.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

48.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

49.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette