Motivational Quotes

Love

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

- David Foster

Best Quotes about Love

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

10.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

11.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

12.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

13.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

14.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

16.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

17.

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

Heinlein, Robert

18.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

19.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

20.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

21.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

22.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

23.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

24.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

25.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

27.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

29.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

30.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

32.

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

33.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

35.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

36.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

37.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

38.

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

Confucius

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

41.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Parker, Dorothy

43.

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

Murdoch, Iris

44.

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

45.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

46.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

47.

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

Wieder, Marcia

48.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.