Motivational Quotes

Love

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Love

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Buber, Martin

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

10.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

11.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

12.

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

13.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

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

15.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

16.

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

17.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

18.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

25.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

26.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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

30.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

31.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

32.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

33.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

34.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

36.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

37.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Jean Anouilh

39.

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

Brookner, Anita

40.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

42.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

44.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

49.

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

50.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese