Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

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

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

10.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

11.

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

12.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

15.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

16.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

17.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

18.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

23.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

24.

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.

25.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

27.

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

28.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

29.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

31.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

32.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

35.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Rowland, Helen

37.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

38.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

Law, William

40.

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

Donne, John

41.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

42.

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

43.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

45.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

46.

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

DiFranco, Ani

47.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

50.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon