Motivational Quotes

Love

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

2.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

3.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

4.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

5.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

9.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

10.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

11.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

13.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

16.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

19.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

20.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

21.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

25.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

26.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

28.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

29.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

30.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Wilde, Kim

32.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

33.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

35.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

36.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

37.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

38.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

39.

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

40.

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

Bailey, Pearl

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

45.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

46.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

47.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.