Motivational Quotes

Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

- Auvil, Myrtle

Best Quotes about Love

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

10.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

11.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

13.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

14.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

16.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

17.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

18.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

19.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

24.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

25.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

26.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

27.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

29.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

30.

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

Irving, Washington

31.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

33.

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

34.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

35.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

36.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

37.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

38.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

39.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

40.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

44.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

45.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

46.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

48.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

49.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.