Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Love

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Disney, Walt

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

10.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

12.

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

Ferry, Brian

13.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

14.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

15.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

16.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

17.

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

Burton, Robert

18.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

19.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

20.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

21.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

22.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

25.

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

26.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

27.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

28.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

29.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

30.

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.

31.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

32.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

33.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

34.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

35.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

36.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

37.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

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.

39.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

40.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

43.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

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

Euripides

45.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

46.

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

Groening, Matt

47.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

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

49.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

50.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir