Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

12.

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

Croft, Roy

13.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

14.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

15.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

16.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

18.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

19.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

20.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

22.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

23.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

24.

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

25.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

26.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

28.

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

Irving, Washington

29.

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

30.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

33.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

34.

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

35.

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

Jeph Jacques

36.

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

Law, William

37.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

38.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

39.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

40.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

41.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

42.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

43.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.