Motivational Quotes

Love

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

- Laing, R. D.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

2.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

3.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

5.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

6.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

7.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Peter Ustinov

12.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

13.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

14.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

15.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

16.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

17.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

18.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

19.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

20.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

21.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

22.

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

Disney, Walt

23.

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

24.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

25.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

27.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

28.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

29.

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

30.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

31.

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

32.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

33.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

36.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

37.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

38.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

39.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

41.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Rita Rudner

43.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

46.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

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

48.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

50.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.