Motivational Quotes

Love

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

- Willis, Bruce

Best Quotes about Love

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

William Shakespeare

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Kempis, Thomas

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

10.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

12.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

13.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

15.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

16.

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

17.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

18.

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

Duras, Marguerite

19.

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

20.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

21.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

23.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

26.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

28.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

29.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

30.

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.

Spencer, Herbert

31.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

34.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

35.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

40.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

45.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

46.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

47.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

48.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

49.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

50.

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.