Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

10.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

11.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

12.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

14.

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

15.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

16.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

17.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Bible

19.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

20.

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

Bridges, Robert

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

23.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

24.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

25.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

26.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

27.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

28.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

30.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

31.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

32.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

33.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

34.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

35.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Hay, Louise L.

37.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

38.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

39.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

40.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

42.

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

Kempis, Thomas

43.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

44.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

45.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

47.

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

48.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

49.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

50.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard