Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Reik, Theodor

10.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

11.

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

12.

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

Richardson, Nick

13.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

14.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

15.

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.

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

18.

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

19.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

20.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

21.

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.

22.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

23.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

27.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

28.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

29.

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

Fromm, Erich

30.

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

Martineau, Harriet

31.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

32.

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

33.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

34.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

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

36.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

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

38.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

39.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

40.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

41.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Jeanne Moreau

43.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

46.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

48.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

49.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry