Motivational Quotes

Love

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Love

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

Augustine, St.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Thurber, James

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

Groening, Matt

11.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

12.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

13.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

16.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

18.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

19.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

20.

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

21.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

22.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

23.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

24.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

25.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

27.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

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

Euripides

29.

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

Davis, Bette

30.

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

Hay, Louise L.

31.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

32.

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

Pythagoras

33.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

34.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

35.

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

36.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

37.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

38.

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

Jean Anouilh

39.

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

40.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

41.

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

Ferry, Brian

42.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

46.

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.

47.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

48.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

49.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

50.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda