Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

Jean Anouilh

10.

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

National Lampoon

11.

'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

12.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

13.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

14.

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

15.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

16.

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

David Viscott

17.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

22.

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

Southey, Robert

23.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

26.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

28.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

29.

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

30.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

31.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

32.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

33.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

34.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

35.

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

Peter Ustinov

36.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

37.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

38.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Heinlein, Robert

43.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

44.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

45.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.