Motivational Quotes

Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

2.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Murdoch, Iris

4.

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

Rowland, Helen

5.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

6.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

7.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

9.

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

Ovid

10.

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

11.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

13.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

17.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

18.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

19.

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

Allen, Woody

20.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

23.

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

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

26.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

27.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

29.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

30.

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

Richardson, Nick

31.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

32.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

33.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

34.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

36.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

37.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

39.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

40.

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

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

Clark, Melanie

42.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

43.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

44.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

45.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

46.

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.

47.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

48.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

49.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

50.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.