Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

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

Heinlein, Robert

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 like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

10.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

13.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

14.

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

15.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

16.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

17.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

19.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

21.

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

Wilde, Kim

22.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

23.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

25.

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

26.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

28.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

30.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

33.

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

Horton, Doug

34.

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

John Sheffield

35.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

36.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

37.

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

38.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

39.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Paolo Giordano

42.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

43.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

48.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

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

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

Sand, George