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

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

10.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

11.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

12.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

13.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

14.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

15.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

16.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

17.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

18.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

19.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

20.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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

24.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

25.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

26.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

28.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

29.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

32.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

33.

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

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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

35.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

36.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

37.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

41.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

42.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

43.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

44.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

45.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

46.

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

Chanel, Coco

47.

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

48.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

49.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.