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

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

13.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

14.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

15.

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

Bridges, Robert

16.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

17.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

18.

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

19.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

20.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

21.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

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.

23.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

25.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

26.

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

Jennifer Aniston

27.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

28.

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

Federman, Irwin

29.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

31.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

34.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

35.

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

Sophocles

36.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

38.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

39.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

41.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

42.

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

43.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

44.

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

45.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Bible

47.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

48.

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

Proverb

49.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel