Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Love

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

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Brown, Les

10.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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

13.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

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

Toni Morrison

16.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

17.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

18.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

20.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

23.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

25.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

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

Reik, Theodor

27.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

28.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

31.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

32.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

33.

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

34.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

36.

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

Proverb, Irish

37.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

39.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

40.

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

Paolo Giordano

41.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Proverb, Spanish

43.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese