Motivational Quotes

Love

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Hugo, Victor

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

17.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

20.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

23.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

25.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

29.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

30.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

32.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

33.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

34.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

35.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

36.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

38.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

39.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

40.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

41.

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

Du Coeur

42.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

44.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

45.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

46.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

47.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

48.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.