Motivational Quotes

Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Love

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

10.

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.

11.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

12.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

15.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

16.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

17.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

19.

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

20.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

21.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

22.

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

23.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

24.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

27.

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

28.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

29.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

32.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

33.

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

Reik, Theodor

34.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

35.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

36.

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

37.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

Hugo, Victor

41.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

43.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

44.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

45.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

46.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

47.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

48.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

49.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan