Motivational Quotes

Love

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Love

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Brookner, Anita

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

11.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

12.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

13.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

17.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

18.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

19.

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

20.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

21.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

22.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

23.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

24.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

25.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

26.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

27.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

28.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

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

32.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

34.

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

Delp, Alexis

35.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

36.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

41.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

44.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

45.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

46.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.