Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

11.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

12.

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

13.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

14.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

17.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

18.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

19.

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

20.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

21.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

22.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

23.

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

24.

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

Anouilh, Jean

25.

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

26.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Vicious, Sid

28.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

29.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

30.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

31.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

32.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

33.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

36.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

37.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

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

Alan Watts

42.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

43.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

45.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

46.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

48.

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

49.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

50.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler