Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

William Penn

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Southey, Robert

10.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Blanton, Smiley

12.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

13.

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

14.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

15.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

16.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

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

18.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

20.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

21.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

22.

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.

23.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

24.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

25.

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

26.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

27.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

30.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

31.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

32.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

33.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

34.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

35.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

36.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

37.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

39.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

40.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

42.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

43.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

44.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

45.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

46.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

47.

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

48.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

49.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

50.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath