Motivational Quotes

Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

1.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

2.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

3.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

4.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

5.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

6.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

7.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

8.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

9.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

12.

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

Mother Teresa

13.

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

Mother Teresa

14.

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

15.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

18.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

19.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

20.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

21.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

23.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

24.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

25.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

26.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

27.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

28.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

29.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

31.

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

Pascal, Blaise

32.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

33.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

34.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

35.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

36.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

39.

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

Eliot, T. S.

40.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

41.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

42.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

43.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

44.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

45.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

46.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

47.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

48.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

49.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De