Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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

Hay, Louise L.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Wieder, Marcia

10.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

15.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

18.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

19.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

20.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

23.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

28.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

31.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

32.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

33.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

36.

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

Sophocles

37.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

38.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

39.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

41.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

42.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

43.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

44.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

45.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

46.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

47.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

48.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

49.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French