Motivational Quotes

Love

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

13.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

14.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

15.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

16.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

17.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

19.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

20.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

24.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

25.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

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

Behn, Aphra

27.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

28.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

29.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

30.

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

Seneca

31.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

32.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

33.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

35.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

38.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

39.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

41.

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

42.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

43.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

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

45.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

47.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

48.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.