Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Love

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

10.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

11.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Federman, Irwin

13.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Mcdonald, George

16.

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

17.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

18.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

19.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

20.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

21.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

22.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

23.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

28.

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

29.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

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

Bertrand Russell

32.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

33.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

34.

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

35.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

36.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

37.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

38.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

39.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

40.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

41.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

43.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

44.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.