Motivational Quotes

Love

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Love

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Paolo Giordano

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

15.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

16.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

18.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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

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.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

22.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Southey, Robert

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

27.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

28.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

29.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

Nathan, George Jean

31.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

33.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

34.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

35.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

36.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

37.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

38.

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

Proverb, Jewish

39.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

40.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

41.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

42.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

43.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

44.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

45.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

46.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

47.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

50.

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