Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

10.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

12.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

13.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

14.

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

Lao-Tzu

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Carmichael, Amy

17.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

18.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

19.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

20.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

21.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

22.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

24.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

26.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

27.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

28.

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

Peter Ustinov

29.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

32.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

34.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

35.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

36.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

38.

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

39.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

41.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

44.

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

45.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

46.

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

Paolo Giordano

47.

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

Randy K. Milholland

48.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

49.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

50.

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

Toni Morrison