Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

Desai, Yogi

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

10.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

11.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Calvino, Italo

13.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

14.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

15.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

16.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

17.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

18.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

19.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

20.

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

David Viscott

21.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

22.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

23.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

24.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

25.

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

26.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

27.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

28.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

30.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

31.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

34.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

36.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

37.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

38.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

39.

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

Buber, Martin

40.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

41.

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

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

44.

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

Jane Austen

45.

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