Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about 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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Jennifer Aniston

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

10.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

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

12.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

13.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

14.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

15.

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

Youngman, Henny

16.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

17.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

18.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

23.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

24.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

25.

'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

26.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

27.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

28.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

29.

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

30.

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

Mother Teresa

31.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

32.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

34.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

37.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

38.

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

Irving, Washington

39.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

40.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

41.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

42.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

43.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

45.

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

46.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

48.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

49.

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

Hazlitt, William

50.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita