Motivational Quotes

Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Paolo Giordano

11.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

12.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

13.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

15.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

16.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

17.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

19.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

20.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

21.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

22.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

23.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

24.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

25.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

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

Ackerman, Diane

27.

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

28.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

31.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

32.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

36.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

37.

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

38.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

39.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

40.

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

Rossetti, Christina

41.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

42.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

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

West, Mae

44.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

46.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

47.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

48.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

49.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

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

William Shakespeare