Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Richardson, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

1.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

2.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

3.

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

Proverb, Irish

4.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

5.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

6.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

7.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

8.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

13.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

14.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

15.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

16.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

17.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

18.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

19.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

20.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

21.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

23.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

26.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

27.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

28.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

29.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

30.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

31.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

32.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

33.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

34.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

35.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

37.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

38.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.