Motivational Quotes

Love

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

- Josh Brand and John Falsey

Best Quotes about Love

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

12.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

13.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

14.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

16.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

18.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

19.

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

John of the Cross, St.

20.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

21.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

23.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

24.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

27.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

28.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

29.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

31.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

32.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

34.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

36.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

37.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

38.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

39.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

40.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

42.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

43.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

44.

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

Southey, Robert

45.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

46.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry