Motivational Quotes

Love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

12.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

13.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

14.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

15.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

18.

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

Reik, Theodor

19.

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

20.

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

21.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

22.

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

Clark, Melanie

23.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

25.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

26.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

28.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

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

30.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

31.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

32.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

33.

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

34.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

36.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

38.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

41.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

42.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

47.

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

48.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

49.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.