Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

10.

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

Jane Austen

11.

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

Paolo Giordano

12.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

13.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

14.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

15.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

16.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

17.

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

18.

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

19.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

20.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

21.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

22.

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

Jean Anouilh

23.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

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

25.

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.

Real Live Preacher

26.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

27.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

28.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

29.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

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

31.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

32.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

33.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

34.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

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

Layton, Irving

36.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

37.

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

Lao-Tzu

38.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

39.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

40.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

41.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

46.

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

47.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

49.

We always come back to our first love.