Motivational Quotes

Love

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Love

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

10.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

11.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

12.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

13.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

15.

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

16.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

17.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

18.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

20.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

21.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Barry, Lynda

23.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

24.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

26.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

29.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

33.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Proverb, Japanese

36.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Murdoch, Iris

38.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

41.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

42.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

43.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

45.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

46.

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

47.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

49.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

50.

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

Wilde, Oscar