Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Love

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Buscaglia, Leo

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

11.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

13.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

14.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

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

Scherer, Paul

16.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

17.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

18.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

19.

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

20.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

21.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

24.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

25.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

26.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

27.

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

Duras, Marguerite

28.

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.

29.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

30.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

31.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

32.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

33.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

34.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

35.

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

36.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

37.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

38.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

39.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

40.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

41.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

42.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

43.

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

Brooke, Rupert

44.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

45.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

46.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

47.

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

48.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

49.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

50.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De