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

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

Ackerman, Diane

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

Groening, Matt

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

Steinfeld, Jake

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

10.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

11.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

13.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

15.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

16.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

17.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

20.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

22.

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

Saltus, Edgar

23.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

24.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

25.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

26.

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

Alan Watts

27.

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

Jane Austen

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

29.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

30.

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

31.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

32.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

33.

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

Bible

34.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

35.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

36.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

37.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

39.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

41.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

42.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

43.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

44.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

45.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

46.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

47.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

48.

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

Proust, Marcel

49.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

50.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy