Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Dane, Frank

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

Petrarch, Francesco

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

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

Scott Westerfeld

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

14.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

15.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

16.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Proverb

18.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

19.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

20.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

21.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

22.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

23.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

25.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

26.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

30.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

31.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

32.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

33.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

36.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

37.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

38.

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.

39.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

41.

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

42.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

43.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

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

45.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

46.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

48.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

49.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.