Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

- Hertl, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

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

Osgood, Samuel

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

10.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

Thurber, James

13.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

16.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

17.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

18.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

21.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

22.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

23.

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

Bailey, Pearl

24.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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.

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

28.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

29.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

30.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

31.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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.

33.

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

Eucharista Ward

34.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

36.

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

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

39.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

40.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

41.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

43.

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

44.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Irving, Washington

46.

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

Groening, Matt

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]