Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Connolly, Cyril

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

10.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

11.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

12.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

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

14.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

15.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

16.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

17.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

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

Bailey, Pearl

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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

26.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

27.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

32.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

33.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

34.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

35.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

36.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

37.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

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

40.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

42.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

45.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.