Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

10.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

14.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

17.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

20.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

21.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Margaret Cho

24.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

27.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

29.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

30.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

31.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

32.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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.

34.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

35.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

36.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

37.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

38.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

39.

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

Calvino, Italo

40.

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

Willis, Bruce

41.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

42.

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

43.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

44.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

45.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

47.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

48.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

49.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

50.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert