Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

2.

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

Fox, Emmet

3.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

4.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

5.

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.

6.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

7.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

8.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

9.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

10.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

12.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

13.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

14.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

15.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

18.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Brown, David

20.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

21.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

22.

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

23.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

25.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

27.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

28.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

30.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

31.

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

Jane Austen

32.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

33.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

34.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

35.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

36.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

37.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

38.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

39.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

40.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

41.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

42.

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

Lennon, John

43.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

44.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

47.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

48.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

49.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

50.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras