Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Love

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Bailey, Pearl

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.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

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

Irving, Washington

11.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

12.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

13.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

15.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

17.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

18.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

21.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

22.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

23.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

26.

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

27.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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

Pavese, Cesare

29.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

30.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

31.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

33.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

35.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

36.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

37.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

39.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

40.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

41.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

42.

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

43.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

44.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

45.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

46.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales