Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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

Crawford, Joan

10.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

11.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

12.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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

16.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

18.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

19.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

20.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

21.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

22.

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

23.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

25.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

26.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

27.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

28.

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

Augustine, St.

29.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

30.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

31.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

32.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

33.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

34.

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

Leunig, Michael

35.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

36.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

38.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

41.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

42.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

43.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

44.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

45.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

46.

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

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