Motivational Quotes

Love

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Love

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Youngman, Henny

10.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

11.

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

Bible

12.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

13.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

14.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

15.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

17.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

18.

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

Donne, John

19.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

20.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

23.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

24.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Proust, Marcel

29.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Peter Ustinov

31.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

32.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

33.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

35.

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

Confucius

36.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

37.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

38.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

39.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

40.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

41.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

45.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.