Motivational Quotes

Love

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

3.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

4.

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

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

6.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

7.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

8.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

10.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

11.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

12.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

13.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

14.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

15.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

16.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

17.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

18.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

19.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

20.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

21.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

22.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

25.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

26.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

29.

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

30.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

31.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

34.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

DiFranco, Ani

36.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

Buddha

38.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

39.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

40.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

42.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

43.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

44.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

45.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

46.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

47.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

48.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

49.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

50.

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

Irving, Washington