Motivational Quotes

Love

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

13.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

16.

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

17.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

18.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

19.

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

20.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

21.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

22.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

23.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

24.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

25.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

26.

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

27.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

30.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

32.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

33.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

34.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

35.

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

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

38.

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

39.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

40.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

41.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

42.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

43.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

44.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

45.

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

Scott Westerfeld

46.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

47.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

48.

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