Motivational Quotes

Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sand, George

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Jeph Jacques

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

10.

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.

11.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

12.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

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

Jane Austen

14.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

15.

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

Horton, Doug

16.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

17.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

18.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

19.

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

Murdoch, Iris

20.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

21.

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

Parker, Dorothy

22.

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

Laing, R. D.

23.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

24.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

26.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

28.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

29.

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

30.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

31.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

32.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

34.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

35.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

36.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

37.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

Bertrand Russell

40.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

43.

'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

44.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

45.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

47.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

48.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

49.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar