Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

- Smith, Wolfman Jack

Best Quotes about Love

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Voltaire

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

12.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Behn, Aphra

14.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

17.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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.

19.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

20.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

21.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

22.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

24.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

25.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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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

28.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

29.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

30.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

33.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

34.

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

35.

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

Chambless, David

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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

37.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

38.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

39.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

40.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

41.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

42.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

43.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

45.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

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

48.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

50.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street