Motivational Quotes

Love

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Calvino, Italo

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.

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

Victor Hugo

12.

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

Plato

13.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

15.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

16.

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.

17.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

19.

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

Levine, Stephen

20.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

21.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

22.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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.

24.

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

Pavese, Cesare

25.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

26.

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

27.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

29.

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

National Lampoon

30.

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

Saltus, Edgar

31.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

34.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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.

36.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

38.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

39.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

40.

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

41.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

42.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

43.

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

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

46.

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

47.

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

Elizabeth Aston

48.

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

49.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde