Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

2.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

3.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

4.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

5.

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

Tomlin, Lily

6.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

7.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

8.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

9.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

12.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

13.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

15.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

16.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

17.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

18.

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.

19.

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

Duffy, Maureen

20.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

24.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

25.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

26.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

27.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

30.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

31.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

32.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

33.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

35.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

36.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

37.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

38.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

39.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

41.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

43.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

44.

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

45.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

46.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

48.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.