Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Lennon, John

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

10.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

11.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

12.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

14.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

15.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

17.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

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

22.

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

Tracy, Brian

23.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

24.

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

Fromm, Erich

25.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

26.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

27.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

28.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Chambless, David

32.

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

Duras, Marguerite

33.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

34.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

35.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

36.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

37.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

38.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

39.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

40.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

41.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

42.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

43.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

44.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

46.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

47.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

48.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.