Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Aristotle

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

10.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

11.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

12.

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

13.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

14.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

15.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

17.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

18.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

19.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

20.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

21.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

22.

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

23.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

24.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

25.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Bette Davis

27.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

29.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

30.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

31.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

32.

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

33.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

34.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

35.

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.

36.

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

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

Julie Morgenstern

38.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

Nathan, George Jean

40.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

41.

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

42.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

44.

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

45.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

47.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset