Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

10.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

11.

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

12.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

13.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

14.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

15.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

19.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

21.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

22.

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

Hertl, Nick

23.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

24.

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

25.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

26.

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

27.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

28.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

29.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

30.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

31.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

32.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

Levine, Stephen

35.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

36.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

37.

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

38.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

39.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

40.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

43.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

44.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

45.

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

Toni Morrison

46.

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

47.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

48.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

49.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

50.

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