Motivational Quotes

Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

- Teasdale, Sara

Best Quotes about Love

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

William Shakespeare

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Federman, Irwin

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

10.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Du Coeur

12.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

15.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

16.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

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

18.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

19.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

20.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

21.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

24.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

26.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

27.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

28.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

29.

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

31.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

32.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

35.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

37.

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

38.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

40.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

41.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

42.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

44.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

45.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

46.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

47.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

48.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

49.

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

Traherne, Thomas

50.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert