Motivational Quotes

Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Love

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

10.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

11.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

14.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

15.

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

Murdoch, Iris

16.

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

17.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

18.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

19.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

22.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

24.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

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

26.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

27.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

34.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

National Lampoon

36.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

37.

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

38.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

39.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

40.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

41.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

42.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

43.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

44.

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

Elizabeth Aston

45.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

46.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

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

Anouilh, Jean

48.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

49.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

50.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard