Motivational Quotes

Love

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

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

Jennifer Aniston

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Fromm, Erich

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

11.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

12.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

13.

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

Harrigan, John

14.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

15.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

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

Rowland, Helen

17.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

18.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

19.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

20.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

21.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

22.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

23.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

24.

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

25.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

27.

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

28.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

29.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

30.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

31.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

33.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

35.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

36.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

37.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

39.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

40.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

41.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

42.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

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

44.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

45.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

46.

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

47.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

48.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

49.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

50.

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.