Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

2.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

3.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

4.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

5.

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

Croft, Roy

6.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

7.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

8.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

9.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

10.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

13.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

16.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

17.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

18.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

19.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

21.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

22.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

23.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

24.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

25.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

26.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

27.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

29.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

30.

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

31.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

32.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

33.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

36.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

37.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

38.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

39.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

40.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

41.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

42.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

44.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

45.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

46.

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

47.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

48.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

49.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John