Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Martineau, Harriet

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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.

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

Southey, Robert

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

William Shakespeare

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

10.

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

11.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

12.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

13.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

14.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

15.

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

Osgood, Samuel

16.

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

Paolo Giordano

17.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

18.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

20.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

21.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

22.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

26.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

27.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

31.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

Rowland, Helen

33.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

37.

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

Scott Westerfeld

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

40.

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

41.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

42.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

43.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

45.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

47.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

48.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

49.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales