Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

11.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

13.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

14.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

15.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

17.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

18.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

19.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

20.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

21.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

23.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

24.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

25.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

27.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

28.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

29.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

31.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

32.

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

33.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

34.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

35.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

36.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

38.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

40.

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

Southey, Robert

41.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

43.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

44.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

45.

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

James, William

46.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Dane, Frank

48.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

49.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

50.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita