Motivational Quotes

Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

1.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

2.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

4.

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

Vicious, Sid

5.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

6.

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.

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

9.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

12.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

13.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

14.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

15.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

16.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

17.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

19.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

23.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

24.

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

Charles M. Schulz

25.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

26.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

27.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

30.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

31.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

32.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

33.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

34.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

35.

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

West, Mae

36.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

37.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

38.

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

39.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Youngman, Henny

41.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

42.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

44.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

45.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

48.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

49.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

50.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel