Motivational Quotes

Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Vicious, Sid

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

10.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

11.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

12.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

13.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

14.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

15.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

16.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

18.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

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

Bible

21.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

22.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

23.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

24.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

26.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

28.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

30.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

31.

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

32.

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

Alan Watts

33.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

34.

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

Proverb, Irish

35.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

36.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

37.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

38.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

39.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

41.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

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

Osgood, Samuel

43.

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

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

46.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

47.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

48.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

49.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

50.

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