Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Burton, Robert

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Mooneyham, Stan

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

10.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

11.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

13.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

14.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

15.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

16.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

17.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

18.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

19.

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

Jeanne Moreau

20.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

21.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

22.

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.

23.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

24.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

25.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

28.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

29.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

30.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

31.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

32.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

33.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

34.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

35.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

37.

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

38.

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

William Penn

39.

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.

40.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

41.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

42.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

43.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

45.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

46.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

47.

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

48.

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

Wilkerson, David

49.

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

Rowland, Helen

50.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.