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

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

11.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

12.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

13.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

14.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

15.

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

Osgood, Samuel

16.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

17.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

18.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Aragon, Louis

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

22.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

24.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

25.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

26.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

27.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

30.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

33.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

34.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

35.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

36.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

37.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

38.

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

Proust, Marcel

39.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

40.

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

41.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

42.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

45.

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

Bible

46.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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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

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De