Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Orwell, George

10.

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

11.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

12.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

16.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

17.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

18.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

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

20.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

22.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

23.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

24.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

25.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

27.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

28.

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

Bridges, Robert

29.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

31.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

32.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

33.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

34.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

35.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

36.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

37.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

38.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

40.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

42.

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

Buber, Martin

43.

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

44.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

45.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

46.

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

Turner, Ted

47.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

48.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

49.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

50.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen