Motivational Quotes

Love

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

11.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

12.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

13.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

17.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

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

19.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

20.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

23.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

24.

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

Paolo Giordano

25.

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

Crawford, Joan

26.

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

27.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

28.

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

29.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

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

Erica Jong

31.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

32.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

34.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

36.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

37.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

38.

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

39.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Groening, Matt

42.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

43.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

44.

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

45.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

47.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

48.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

49.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita