Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

10.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

11.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

William Penn

13.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

14.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

15.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

16.

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

17.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

18.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

19.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

20.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

21.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

22.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

24.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

25.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

26.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

27.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

28.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

29.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

30.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

31.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

32.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

33.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

34.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

35.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

36.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

41.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

42.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

44.

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

Jerome, St.

45.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

47.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

48.

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

Brown, Les

49.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

50.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.