Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

2.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

3.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

4.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

5.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

6.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

7.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

8.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

9.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

10.

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

Jeanne Moreau

11.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

12.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

14.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

15.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

16.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

18.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

21.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

22.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

23.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

24.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

25.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

26.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

27.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

28.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

29.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

30.

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

Sophocles

31.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

32.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

34.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

35.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

36.

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.

37.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

38.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

39.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

43.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

44.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

45.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

48.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

49.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu