Motivational Quotes

Love

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Love

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

10.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

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

Ovid

12.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

13.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

15.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

16.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

17.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

18.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

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

Proverb

20.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

21.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

22.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

23.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

27.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

28.

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.

29.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

30.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

31.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

32.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

33.

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

Carroll, Pat

34.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

36.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

37.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

38.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

40.

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

Bourget, Paul

41.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

42.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

43.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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

47.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

48.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

49.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.