Motivational Quotes

Love

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Laing, R. D.

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

William Shakespeare

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

13.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

14.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

16.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

17.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

19.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

20.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

21.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

22.

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

Swift, Jonathan

23.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

24.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

25.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

26.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

27.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

29.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

Proverb, Irish

31.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

32.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

33.

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

34.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

35.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

36.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

37.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

38.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

40.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

41.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

43.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

44.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

45.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.