Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Love

1.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

2.

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

3.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

4.

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

Heinlein, Robert

5.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

6.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

7.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

8.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

9.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

10.

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

Croft, Roy

11.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

12.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

13.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

14.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

16.

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

17.

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

18.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

19.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

20.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

22.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

23.

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

Wilkerson, David

24.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

26.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

27.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

29.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

30.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

32.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

36.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

37.

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

Martineau, Harriet

38.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

39.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.