Motivational Quotes

Love

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Aragon, Louis

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

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Alan Watts

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

10.

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

11.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

12.

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

Lennon, John

13.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

14.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

15.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

16.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

18.

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

Connolly, Cyril

19.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

20.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

21.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

25.

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.

26.

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

Peguy, Charles

27.

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

Erica Jong

28.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

29.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

30.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

31.

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

Fromm, Erich

32.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

33.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

37.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

38.

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

39.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

40.

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

Duras, Marguerite

41.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

44.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

45.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

46.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

48.

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

Crawford, Joan

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier