Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't always get to choose what we love.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bailey, Pearl

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

Bible

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

10.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

13.

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

Jeph Jacques

14.

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

Reik, Theodor

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

17.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

19.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

21.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

22.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

25.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

29.

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

Anouilh, Jean

30.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

31.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

32.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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.

34.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

35.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

36.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

37.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

38.

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

Peter Ustinov

39.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

41.

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.

42.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

43.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

44.

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

Paolo Giordano

45.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

46.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

47.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

49.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo