Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

- Aragon, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

10.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

11.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

12.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

13.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

14.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

15.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

16.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

17.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

21.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

22.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

24.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

26.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

27.

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

28.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

29.

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

30.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

31.

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

32.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

33.

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.

34.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

38.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

39.

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

40.

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

Wilde, Kim

41.

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

Crawford, Joan

42.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

43.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

44.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

45.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

46.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

47.

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

Sophocles

48.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.