Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

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

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Dryden, John

12.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

13.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

15.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

16.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

17.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

18.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

19.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

20.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

21.

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

Irving, Washington

22.

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

Pythagoras

23.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

24.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

25.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

26.

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

Chambless, David

27.

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

Thurber, James

28.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

29.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Murdoch, Iris

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

33.

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

Aragon, Louis

34.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Southey, Robert

36.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

37.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Proust, Marcel

39.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

40.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

41.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

42.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

43.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

44.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

Euripides

46.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

47.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

48.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

49.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

50.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson