Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

10.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

12.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

13.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

16.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

20.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

22.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

23.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

26.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

27.

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

Osgood, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

Carl Jung

30.

'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

31.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

32.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

33.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

35.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

36.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

37.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

38.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

39.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

40.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

41.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

43.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

44.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

45.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

46.

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

Law, William

47.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

48.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

50.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler