Motivational Quotes

Love

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Best Quotes about Love

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

Smith, Sydney

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Proverb, Japanese

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bible

10.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

13.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

19.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

20.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

22.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

23.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

24.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

25.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

26.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

27.

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

Jane Austen

28.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

29.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

30.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

31.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

Murdoch, Iris

34.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Groening, Matt

37.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

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

Croft, Roy

39.

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

Sophocles

40.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

41.

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

Rita Rudner

42.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

43.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

44.

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

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

48.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

49.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

50.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.