Motivational Quotes

Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Eliot, T. S.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Law, William

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

10.

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

11.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

12.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

13.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

14.

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

15.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

16.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

19.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

21.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

22.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

23.

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

Lao-Tzu

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

26.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

27.

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.

28.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

30.

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.

31.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

33.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

35.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

36.

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

Tomlin, Lily

37.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

38.

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.

39.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

44.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

45.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

46.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

47.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

48.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

49.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

Murdoch, Iris