Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

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

Law, William

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

David Viscott

16.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

17.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

21.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

22.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

23.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

27.

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

Bertrand Russell

28.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

30.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Sarton, May

33.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

36.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

38.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

40.

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

41.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

42.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

43.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

46.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

47.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

48.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

49.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

50.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell