Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

14.

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

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

17.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

18.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

19.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

20.

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

Randy K. Milholland

21.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

22.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

23.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

24.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

25.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

26.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

29.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

30.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

31.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

32.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

33.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

35.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

36.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

37.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

38.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

39.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

40.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

43.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

44.

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

Law, William

45.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

48.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

49.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

50.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite