Motivational Quotes

Love

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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

Brown, David

13.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

17.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

18.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

19.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

20.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

21.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

22.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

23.

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

24.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

25.

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

Turner, Ted

26.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

28.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

29.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

30.

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

31.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

32.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

33.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

34.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

35.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

36.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

37.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

39.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

40.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

41.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

42.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

43.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

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

Bridges, Robert

45.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

46.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

49.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

50.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare