Motivational Quotes

Love

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Love

1.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

2.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

3.

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

4.

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

Peter Ustinov

5.

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

6.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

9.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

10.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

12.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

13.

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

Brown, David

14.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Victor Hugo

16.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

17.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

18.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

19.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

20.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

21.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

23.

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

Federman, Irwin

24.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

26.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Duras, Marguerite

28.

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

29.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

33.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

36.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

37.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

39.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Murdoch, Iris

41.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

45.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

46.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.