Motivational Quotes

Love

The only victory over love is flight.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Love

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

10.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

11.

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

Fromm, Erich

12.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

13.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

14.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

16.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

19.

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

Pavese, Cesare

20.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

21.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

22.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

23.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

24.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

31.

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

32.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

33.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

34.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

35.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

37.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

38.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

39.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

42.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

43.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

44.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

45.

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

46.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

47.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

48.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

49.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

50.

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