Motivational Quotes

Love

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Love

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Augustine, St.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Shakespeare

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

10.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

11.

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

12.

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

13.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

17.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

18.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

19.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

23.

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

Rita Rudner

24.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

25.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

27.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

30.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

31.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

35.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

37.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

38.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

39.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

40.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

41.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

43.

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

David Viscott

44.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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.

46.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

47.

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

48.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

49.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare