Motivational Quotes

Love

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

- William Shakespeare

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

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.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

10.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

11.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

12.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

13.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

14.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

15.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

18.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

19.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

22.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

23.

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

24.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

25.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

26.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Jane Austen

28.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

29.

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

Connolly, Cyril

30.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

31.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

32.

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

Alan Watts

33.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

34.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

35.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

36.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

37.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

38.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

39.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

40.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

41.

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

42.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

43.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

50.

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