Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

1.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

2.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

3.

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

4.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

5.

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

Carroll, Pat

6.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

7.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

9.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

10.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

11.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

12.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

13.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

14.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

15.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

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

Ovid

17.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

18.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

19.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

21.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

22.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

23.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

24.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

26.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

27.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

28.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

29.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

30.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

31.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

32.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

34.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

36.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

38.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

39.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

45.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

46.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

47.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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

Crawford, Joan

49.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

50.

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