Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

10.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

12.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

13.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

17.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

18.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

21.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

22.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

23.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

24.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

25.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

26.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

27.

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

28.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

31.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

33.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

37.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Fromm, Erich

39.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

40.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

41.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

42.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

43.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

49.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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