Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

3.

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

West, Mae

4.

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

5.

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

Rita Rudner

6.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

7.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

8.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

9.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

12.

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

13.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

17.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

18.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

19.

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

20.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

21.

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

22.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

23.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

24.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

26.

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

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

31.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

32.

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

Clark, Melanie

33.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

34.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

36.

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

Bible

37.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

41.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

42.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

43.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.