Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Elizabeth Aston

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

15.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

16.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

17.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

18.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

21.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

22.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

23.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

25.

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

Chanel, Coco

26.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

27.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

29.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

30.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

31.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

32.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

35.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

36.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

37.

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

38.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

39.

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

40.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

44.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

45.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

46.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

47.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

48.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von