Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Love

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

Brookner, Anita

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

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

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.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

10.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

12.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

13.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

15.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

16.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

17.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

18.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

19.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

22.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

23.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

24.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

25.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

26.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

27.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

28.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

30.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

31.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

33.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

35.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

36.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

37.

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

38.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

39.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

40.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

41.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

43.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

44.

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

Law, William

45.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

46.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl