Motivational Quotes

Love

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Hay, Louise L.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Tomlin, Lily

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

10.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

13.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

14.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

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

Ovid

16.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

17.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

20.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

21.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

Southey, Robert

23.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

26.

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.

27.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

28.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

29.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Lao-Tzu

31.

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

32.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

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

34.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

36.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

37.

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

38.

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

39.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

40.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

42.

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

Carmichael, Amy

43.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

44.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

45.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

46.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

48.

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

Fox, Emmet

49.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

50.

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.