Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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

William Shakespeare

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

William Shakespeare

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Wilkerson, David

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

11.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

12.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

13.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

14.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

15.

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

16.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

18.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

20.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Jane Austen

22.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

23.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

24.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Burton, Robert

26.

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

27.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

28.

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

Brookner, Anita

29.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

30.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

31.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

32.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

34.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

35.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

39.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

40.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Lao-Tzu

45.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

46.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

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

48.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

49.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

50.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert