Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

10.

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

11.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

13.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Murdoch, Iris

20.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

22.

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

23.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

24.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

26.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

27.

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

28.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

30.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

31.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

32.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

33.

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

Ovid

34.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

35.

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

Reagan, Ronald

36.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

37.

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

Tracy, Brian

38.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

39.

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

Peter Ustinov

40.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

41.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

42.

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

43.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

44.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

45.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

46.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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

49.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.