Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Diane Ackerman

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Fromm, Erich

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

10.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

11.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

13.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

14.

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

15.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

16.

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

Bible

17.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

18.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

19.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

20.

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

21.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

22.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

23.

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

Bourget, Paul

24.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

26.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

28.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

29.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

30.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

32.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

35.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

36.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

37.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

38.

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

39.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

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

41.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

42.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

43.

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

44.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

45.

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.

46.

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

Scherer, Paul

47.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

48.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

49.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon