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 is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Turner, Ted

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

10.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

13.

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

Groening, Matt

14.

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

15.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Alan Watts

19.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

20.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

21.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

22.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

23.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

24.

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

Rita Rudner

25.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

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

Disney, Walt

28.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

29.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

30.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

31.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

32.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

33.

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

Paolo Giordano

34.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

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

36.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Rossetti, Christina

38.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

39.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

42.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

43.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

44.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

45.

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

46.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

48.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

49.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

50.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia