Motivational Quotes

Love

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

- Jeph Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bible

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.

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

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

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

11.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

12.

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

13.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

14.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

15.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

17.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

18.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Anderson, Margaret

22.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

24.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

25.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

26.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

28.

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

Real Live Preacher

29.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

30.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

31.

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

32.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

33.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

34.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

Davies, Robertson

36.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

37.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

38.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

39.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

40.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

41.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

42.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

43.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

44.

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

45.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

46.

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

47.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

48.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

49.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

50.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence