Motivational Quotes

Love

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Love

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

10.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

13.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

14.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

15.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

16.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

17.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

19.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

20.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

Augustine, St.

22.

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

23.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

24.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

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

26.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

27.

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

Capote, Truman

28.

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

29.

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

30.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

31.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

32.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

33.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

34.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

38.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

41.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

42.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

44.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.