Motivational Quotes

Love

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

- Oxenham, John

Best Quotes about Love

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

National Lampoon

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

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

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

11.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

12.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

13.

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

14.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

15.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

16.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

18.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

19.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

20.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

22.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

23.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

24.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

26.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

27.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

28.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

29.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

30.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

32.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

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

Bailey, Pearl

35.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

36.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

39.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

43.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

45.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

46.

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

47.

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

Duras, Marguerite

48.

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

49.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

50.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth