Motivational Quotes

Love

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Victor Hugo

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

11.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

12.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

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

Byron, Lord

14.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

18.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

19.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

20.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

21.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

22.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

23.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

24.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

26.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

27.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

28.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

31.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

33.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

36.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

37.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

38.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

41.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

42.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

43.

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

Hertl, Nick

44.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

45.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

46.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

48.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

49.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

50.

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

National Lampoon