Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

2.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

3.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

4.

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

Bible

5.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

6.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

7.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

11.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

12.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

15.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

16.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

17.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

18.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

21.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

23.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

24.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

25.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

26.

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

Bailey, Pearl

27.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

28.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

29.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

30.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

31.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

32.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

33.

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

34.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

36.

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

Augustine, St.

37.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

38.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

42.

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

Lennon, John

43.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

44.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

45.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

47.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

49.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

50.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold