Motivational Quotes

Love

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

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

Harrigan, John

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Willis, Bruce

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

12.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

13.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

14.

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.

15.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

16.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

17.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

18.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

20.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

21.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

22.

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

23.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

24.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

25.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

27.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

28.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

29.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

30.

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

Anouilh, Jean

31.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

32.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

33.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Hertl, Nick

37.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

39.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

40.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

41.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

44.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

45.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

46.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

48.

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

Hay, Louise L.

49.

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.

50.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace