Motivational Quotes

Love

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

- Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Love

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

10.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

11.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

13.

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

14.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

15.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

16.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

Jane Austen

18.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

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

20.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

21.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

22.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

24.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

25.

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

26.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

28.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

31.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

32.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

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

36.

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

Laing, R. D.

37.

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

38.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

39.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

40.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

41.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.