Motivational Quotes

Love

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Love

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bourget, Paul

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

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

10.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

11.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

15.

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

Byron, Lord

16.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

17.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

23.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

24.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

25.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

27.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

28.

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

29.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

30.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

31.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

32.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

33.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

34.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

35.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

37.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

38.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

40.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

42.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

44.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

45.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.