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 stronger than justice.

Sting

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

Mencken, H. L.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Thurber, James

10.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

13.

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

Auerbach, Red

14.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

15.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

18.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

19.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

21.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

22.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

23.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

24.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

25.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

29.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

30.

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

Harrigan, John

31.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

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

Law, William

33.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

34.

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

Rossetti, Christina

35.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

36.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

38.

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

Smith, Sydney

39.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

40.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

45.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

46.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

47.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

48.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

49.

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

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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