Motivational Quotes

Love

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

2.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

3.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

4.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

5.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

6.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

7.

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

Anouilh, Jean

8.

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

9.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

10.

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

11.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

13.

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

Fromm, Erich

14.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

15.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

17.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

18.

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

19.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

21.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

22.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

25.

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

26.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

30.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

31.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

32.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

33.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

34.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Clark, Melanie

37.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

38.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

39.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

40.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

41.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

42.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

43.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

44.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

45.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

47.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

48.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

49.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

50.

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