Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

- Childs, Williams

Best Quotes about Love

1.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

2.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

3.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

4.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

5.

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

Peter Ustinov

6.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

7.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

8.

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

Crawford, Joan

9.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

11.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

12.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

13.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

20.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

21.

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

Capote, Truman

22.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

23.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

24.

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

Mcdonald, George

25.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

26.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

27.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

28.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

29.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

30.

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

31.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

32.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

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

Fromm, Erich

36.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

37.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

38.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

39.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

42.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

45.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

46.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

47.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

48.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

49.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

50.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.