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

1.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

2.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

3.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

4.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

5.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

6.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

8.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

9.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

11.

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

12.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

13.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

14.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

15.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

16.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

19.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

21.

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

Du Coeur

22.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

24.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

29.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

30.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

34.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

35.

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

36.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

37.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Heinlein, Robert

39.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

40.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

41.

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

42.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

43.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

44.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

45.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

46.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

47.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

48.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

49.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

50.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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