Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

1.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

2.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

3.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

4.

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

5.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

6.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

7.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

8.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

9.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

10.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

11.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

12.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

13.

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

14.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

15.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

16.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

17.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

18.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

19.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

20.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

21.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

22.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

23.

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

Vicious, Sid

24.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

26.

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

27.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

28.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

30.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

31.

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

William Penn

32.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Southey, Robert

34.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

35.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

38.

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

Heinlein, Robert

39.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

40.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.