Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

10.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

11.

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

Traherne, Thomas

12.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

13.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

14.

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

Martineau, Harriet

15.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

16.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

17.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

18.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

20.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

21.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

22.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

23.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

24.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

25.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

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

Buddha

28.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

30.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

31.

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

Hay, Louise L.

32.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

33.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

34.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

35.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

37.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

38.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

41.

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

42.

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

43.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

45.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

46.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

47.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

48.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

50.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek