Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Barry, Lynda

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

Laing, R. D.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

10.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

11.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

12.

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

Chambless, David

13.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

14.

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

Scott Westerfeld

15.

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

16.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

17.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

18.

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

19.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

20.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Ackerman, Diane

22.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

24.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

25.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

26.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

'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

28.

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

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

31.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

32.

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

Ovid

33.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

34.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

35.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

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

Meredith, George

37.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

39.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

41.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

42.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

44.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

45.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

46.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

47.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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

Anouilh, Jean

49.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

50.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales