Motivational Quotes

Love

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Love

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

10.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

11.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

12.

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

13.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

15.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

17.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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.

19.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

20.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

23.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

25.

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

Brown, David

26.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

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

29.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

30.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

32.

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

33.

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

Heinlein, Robert

34.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

35.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

36.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

37.

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.

38.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

39.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

40.

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

41.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

42.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

43.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

49.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

50.

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

Behn, Aphra