Motivational Quotes

Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Allen, Woody

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Hay, Louise L.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

13.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Euripides

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

19.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

20.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

22.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

23.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

24.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

25.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

26.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

27.

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

Scott Westerfeld

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

30.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

33.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

34.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

35.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

36.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

37.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

Paolo Giordano

39.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

41.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

42.

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

43.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

44.

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

45.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

46.

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

John Sheffield

47.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

48.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

49.

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

Disney, Walt

50.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.