Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wieder, Marcia

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

12.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

13.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

14.

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

Peter Ustinov

15.

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.

16.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

17.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

18.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

22.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

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

24.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

26.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

27.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

National Lampoon

30.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

32.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

33.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

34.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

35.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

36.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

37.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

38.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

39.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

40.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

41.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

42.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

43.

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

44.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

48.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

49.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa