Motivational Quotes

Love

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

- Segal, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Plato

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

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

11.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

12.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

13.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

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

Ferry, Brian

15.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

16.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

17.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

18.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

19.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

21.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

22.

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

23.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

24.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

25.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

26.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

27.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

29.

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

30.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

31.

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

Fromm, Erich

32.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

33.

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

Murdoch, Iris

34.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

35.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

36.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

37.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

38.

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

39.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

40.

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

41.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

43.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.