Motivational Quotes

Love

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

Bible

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

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

10.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

11.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

12.

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

Wieder, Marcia

13.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

14.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

15.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

16.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

17.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

18.

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

Bourget, Paul

19.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

20.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

21.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

22.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

23.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

24.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

25.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Pavese, Cesare

27.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

28.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

29.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

32.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

33.

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

34.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

35.

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

36.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

37.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

38.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

40.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

41.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

42.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

44.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

45.

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

46.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

47.

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

Bible

48.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

49.

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

50.

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