Motivational Quotes

Love

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

- Monica Fairview

Best Quotes about Love

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

10.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

11.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

12.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

13.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

14.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

15.

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.

16.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

17.

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

Wilde, Kim

18.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

19.

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

20.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

21.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

22.

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

DiFranco, Ani

23.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

25.

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

26.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

27.

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

Scott Westerfeld

28.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

30.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

31.

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

Heinlein, Robert

32.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

33.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

35.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

39.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

Davies, Robertson

41.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

42.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

44.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

45.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

49.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

50.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William