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

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

Connolly, Cyril

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

10.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

11.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

12.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

13.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

14.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

16.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

17.

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

18.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

20.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

21.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

23.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

24.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

26.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

32.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

33.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

34.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

35.

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

36.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

37.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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.

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

Chanel, Coco

40.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

41.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

42.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

46.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

47.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

48.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.