Motivational Quotes

Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

2.

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

Peter Ustinov

3.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

4.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

6.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

7.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

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

9.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

10.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

11.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

12.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

13.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

14.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Disney, Walt

19.

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

20.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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

22.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

23.

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

Vicious, Sid

24.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

25.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

26.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

27.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

28.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

29.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

32.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

33.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

34.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

35.

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

36.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

37.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

38.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

39.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

40.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

42.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

43.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

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

Buber, Martin

45.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.