Motivational Quotes

Love

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

11.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

12.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

13.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

14.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

16.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

17.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

18.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

20.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

21.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

22.

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.

23.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

24.

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

Swift, Jonathan

25.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

26.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

27.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

28.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

29.

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

30.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

31.

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

Reagan, Ronald

32.

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

34.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

35.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

38.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

40.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

41.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

43.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

44.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

45.

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

Laing, R. D.

46.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

47.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

48.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

49.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

50.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa