Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Love

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

10.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

11.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

12.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

13.

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

Duras, Marguerite

14.

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

Saltus, Edgar

15.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

16.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

17.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

18.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

19.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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.

22.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

23.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

24.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

25.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

26.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

27.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

28.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

29.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

30.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

31.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

33.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

34.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

36.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Michael Patrick King

39.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

40.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

43.

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

44.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

45.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

46.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

49.

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

Proverb, French

50.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman