Motivational Quotes

Love

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

Aragon, Louis

10.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

11.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

14.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

15.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

16.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

17.

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

Bible

18.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

19.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

21.

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

22.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

23.

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

Proverb, Irish

24.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Jean Anouilh

29.

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

Hertl, Nick

30.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

31.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

32.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

33.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

34.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

35.

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

James, William

36.

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

Thurber, James

37.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

38.

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

39.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

40.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Anouilh, Jean

42.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

43.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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

Proverb, Japanese

46.

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

47.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

48.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

49.

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

50.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.