Motivational Quotes

Love

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

- Jeff Melvoin

Best Quotes about Love

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Proverb

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

Crawford, Joan

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Charles M. Schulz

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

10.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

12.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

14.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

17.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

18.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

19.

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

Rita Rudner

20.

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

Delp, Alexis

21.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

24.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

25.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

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

28.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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

30.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

Eliot, T. S.

32.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

34.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

35.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

36.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

37.

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

38.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Peter Ustinov

41.

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

42.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

43.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

44.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

46.

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

Duffy, Maureen

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

Anouilh, Jean

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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