Motivational Quotes

Love

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

- Monica Fairview

Best Quotes about Love

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Scott Westerfeld

10.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

11.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

12.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

13.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

14.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

15.

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

16.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

17.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

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.

19.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

20.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

21.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

22.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

23.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

27.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

28.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

30.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

31.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

32.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

33.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

34.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

36.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

39.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

40.

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

Reagan, Ronald

41.

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.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

44.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

45.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

46.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

47.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

48.

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

Burton, Robert

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.