Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Southey, Robert

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

Alan Watts

10.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

12.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

13.

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

Murdoch, Iris

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

16.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

17.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

20.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

21.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

22.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

23.

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

Croft, Roy

24.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

25.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

28.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

30.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

32.

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

Hay, Louise L.

33.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

34.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

35.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

36.

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

Bible

37.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

38.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

40.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

41.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

42.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

43.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

44.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

49.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

50.

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