Motivational Quotes

Love

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Anderson, Margaret

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Richardson, Nick

10.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

11.

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

12.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

13.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

14.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

17.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

18.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

20.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

21.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

22.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

23.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

24.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

25.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

26.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

28.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

29.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

31.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

33.

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

34.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

40.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

41.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

43.

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

Levine, Stephen

44.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

45.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

46.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Carl Jung

48.

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

Rowland, Helen

49.

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

50.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare