Motivational Quotes

Love

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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.

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

12.

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

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

14.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

15.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

16.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

22.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

24.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

26.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

Scherer, Paul

29.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

30.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

32.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

34.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

35.

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

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

37.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

38.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

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

Rita Rudner

42.

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

43.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

44.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

45.

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

46.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Scott Westerfeld

48.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.