Motivational Quotes

Love

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Love

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

12.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

13.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

15.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

16.

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

17.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

18.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

21.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

22.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

23.

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

24.

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

25.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

26.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Julie Morgenstern

28.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

30.

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

31.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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.

33.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

34.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

36.

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

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

39.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

40.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

41.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

44.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

47.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

48.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

49.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

50.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset