Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

10.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

11.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

12.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

13.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

15.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

16.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

17.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

19.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

20.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

21.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

22.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

23.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

24.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

25.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

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

John Sheffield

28.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

29.

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

Youngman, Henny

30.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

31.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

33.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

35.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

36.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

37.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

38.

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

39.

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

Meredith, George

40.

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

Bible

41.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

44.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

46.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

47.

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

48.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

49.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

50.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.