Motivational Quotes

Love

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

- Marino, Michael Garrett

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sand, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

10.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

13.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

14.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

15.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

16.

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

Brooke, Rupert

17.

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

Murdoch, Iris

18.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

19.

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

Crawford, Joan

20.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

22.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

23.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

25.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

27.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

28.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

31.

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

32.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

33.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

34.

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

35.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

36.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

38.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

39.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

41.

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

42.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

43.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

45.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

46.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

47.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

48.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

49.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

50.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas