Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

10.

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

Charles M. Schulz

11.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

12.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

13.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

14.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

16.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

18.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

19.

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

Victor Hugo

20.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

22.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

23.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

24.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

26.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

29.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

32.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

33.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

34.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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

38.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

40.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

41.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

42.

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

43.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

44.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

45.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

47.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

48.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

49.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul