Motivational Quotes

Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

- Strong, Anna

Best Quotes about Love

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

10.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

11.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

12.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

13.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

14.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

18.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

19.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

21.

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

Bailey, Pearl

22.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

24.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

25.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

26.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

27.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

28.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

30.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

31.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

33.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

35.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

36.

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

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.

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

Hay, Louise L.

39.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

40.

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.

41.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

43.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

44.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

45.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

47.

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

48.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

49.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

50.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras