Motivational Quotes

Love

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

- Oates, Joyce Carol

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Dane, Frank

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

10.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

11.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

12.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

13.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

15.

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

Murdoch, Iris

16.

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

17.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

18.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

19.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

23.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

26.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

29.

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

30.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

31.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

32.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

33.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

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.

35.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

38.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

39.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

40.

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

Elizabeth Aston

41.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

42.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

46.

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

Margaret Cho

47.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

49.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

50.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor