Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- David Viscott

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

3.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

4.

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

5.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

6.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

7.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

8.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

9.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

10.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

12.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

13.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

14.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

15.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

22.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

23.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

27.

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

28.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

29.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

30.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

31.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

32.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

34.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

35.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

36.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

37.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

38.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

39.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

43.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

44.

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

Jennifer Aniston

45.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

46.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

50.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy