Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

2.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

3.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

4.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

6.

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

7.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

8.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

9.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

10.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

11.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

12.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

13.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

14.

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

15.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

16.

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.

17.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

18.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

22.

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

John Sheffield

23.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

25.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

28.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

29.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

30.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

31.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

32.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

33.

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

34.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

35.

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

Swift, Jonathan

36.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

37.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

38.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

39.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

41.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

42.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Smith, Sydney

44.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

45.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

46.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Eliot, T. S.

50.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich