Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Hay, Louise L.

2.

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

John of the Cross, St.

3.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

4.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

5.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

6.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

7.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

8.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

9.

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

Desai, Yogi

10.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

11.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

14.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

15.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

16.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

17.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

19.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

20.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

21.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

22.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

23.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

27.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

29.

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

30.

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

Croft, Roy

31.

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

Bible

32.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

33.

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

34.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

35.

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

Paolo Giordano

36.

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

37.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

39.

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

40.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

41.

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

42.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

43.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

44.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

45.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

46.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

47.

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

Rita Rudner

48.

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

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh