Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

10.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

11.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

12.

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

13.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

14.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

15.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

18.

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

19.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

22.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

23.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

26.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

31.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

33.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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.

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

36.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

37.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

44.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

45.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

46.

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.

47.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

48.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

49.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

50.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og