Motivational Quotes

Love

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

10.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

11.

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

12.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

13.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

14.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

15.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

16.

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

17.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

18.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

20.

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

21.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

23.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

26.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

27.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

28.

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

29.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Barry, Lynda

31.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

32.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

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

35.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

36.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

37.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

38.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

39.

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

Davies, Robertson

40.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Paolo Giordano

43.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

44.

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

45.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

46.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

47.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Duffy, Maureen

50.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet