Motivational Quotes

Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

2.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

3.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

4.

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

Buber, Martin

5.

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

6.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

7.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

8.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

9.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

10.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

11.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

12.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

13.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

14.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

15.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

17.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

20.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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.

23.

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

Davies, Robertson

24.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

25.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

26.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Capote, Truman

30.

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

31.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

32.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

33.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

34.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

35.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

39.

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

Youngman, Henny

40.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

42.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

43.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

44.

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

West, Mae

45.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

46.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

47.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

48.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

49.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

50.

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

David Viscott