Motivational Quotes

Love

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Smith, Sydney

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

10.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

11.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

13.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

15.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

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

18.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

19.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

20.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

21.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

22.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

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

Fromm, Erich

24.

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

Chambless, David

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Jane Austen

32.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

34.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

35.

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

36.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

38.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

39.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

41.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

46.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

48.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

49.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

50.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De