Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Disney, Walt

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

Randy K. Milholland

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Burton, Robert

10.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

12.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

13.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

16.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

17.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

18.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

20.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

21.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

22.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

23.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

24.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

26.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

27.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

28.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

30.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

32.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

33.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

34.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

35.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

36.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

37.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

38.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

44.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

47.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

48.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

49.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

50.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah