Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

10.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

11.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

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

Davis, Bette

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

17.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

18.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

19.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

20.

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

21.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

23.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

24.

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

25.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

26.

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

Buddha

27.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

Orwell, George

30.

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

Bible

31.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

32.

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

33.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

34.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

35.

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

36.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

37.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

38.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

39.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

40.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

41.

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

Youngman, Henny

42.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

43.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

44.

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

45.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

46.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

48.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

50.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De