Motivational Quotes

Love

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

12.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

13.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

14.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

16.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

19.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

20.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

21.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

22.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

23.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

24.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

26.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

28.

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

Victor Hugo

29.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

34.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

35.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

36.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

37.

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

38.

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

Fromm, Erich

39.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

40.

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

41.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

43.

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

44.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

46.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

47.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

48.

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

49.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

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

William Shakespeare