Motivational Quotes

Love

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Love

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Bible

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

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

Diane Ackerman

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

13.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

14.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

15.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

16.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

17.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

19.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

20.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

21.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

23.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

24.

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.

25.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

26.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

27.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

29.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

30.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

31.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

32.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

33.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

34.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

35.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

37.

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

Law, William

38.

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

39.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

40.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

41.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

44.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

46.

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