Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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.

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

10.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

11.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

12.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

13.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

15.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

16.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

22.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

23.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

24.

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

25.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

26.

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

Nathan, George Jean

27.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

28.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

29.

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

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

33.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

35.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

36.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

37.

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

38.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

39.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

41.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

42.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

43.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

45.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

46.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

47.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

48.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

49.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.