Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

Nathan, George Jean

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

11.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

12.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

13.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

14.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

18.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

19.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

20.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

21.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

24.

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

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

27.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

Osgood, Samuel

30.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

31.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

32.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

33.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

34.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

35.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

36.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

37.

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

Wieder, Marcia

38.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

39.

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.

40.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

47.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

48.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

49.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

50.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn