Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

10.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

11.

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

12.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Brookner, Anita

14.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

16.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

17.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

18.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

19.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

20.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

21.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

22.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

25.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

27.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

28.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

29.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

34.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

35.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

36.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

37.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

38.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

41.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

42.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

43.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

48.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]