Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Rita Rudner

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

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

10.

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

Blanton, Smiley

11.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

13.

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

14.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

16.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

17.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

18.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

19.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

20.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

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

22.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

23.

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

24.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

25.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

27.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

28.

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

Heinlein, Robert

29.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

30.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

31.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

32.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

33.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

34.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

35.

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

36.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

38.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

39.

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

Disney, Walt

40.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

41.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

42.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

43.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

48.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

50.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas