Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

- M. Scott Peck

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Real Live Preacher

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

Dryden, John

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

10.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

11.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

12.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

15.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

18.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

19.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

20.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Duras, Marguerite

22.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

23.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

25.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

26.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

27.

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.

28.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

30.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

31.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

33.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

34.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

35.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

36.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

37.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

38.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

39.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

40.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

41.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

45.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

46.

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.

47.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe