Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

- Smith, Wolfman Jack

Best Quotes about Love

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

10.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

11.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

12.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

13.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

14.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

15.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

16.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

17.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

19.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

22.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

25.

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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

32.

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

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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.

34.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

35.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

36.

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.

37.

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

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

39.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

44.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

45.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

46.

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

Jeph Jacques

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.