Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Paolo Giordano

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bible

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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

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

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

10.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

Euripides

12.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

13.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

14.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

15.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

16.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

17.

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

18.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

19.

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

20.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

21.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

23.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

24.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

25.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

30.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

31.

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

32.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

33.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

35.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

36.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

37.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

40.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

41.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

43.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

45.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

46.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

49.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

50.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas