Motivational Quotes

Love

We live in the world when we love it.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Love

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Connolly, Cyril

10.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

11.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

12.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

13.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

14.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

15.

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

Rowland, Helen

16.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

17.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

18.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

19.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

22.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

24.

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

25.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

26.

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

27.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

28.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

29.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

Chambless, David

31.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

32.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

Delp, Alexis

34.

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

Lennon, John

35.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

37.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

38.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

39.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

40.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

41.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

42.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

48.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

49.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

50.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.