Motivational Quotes

Love

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Love

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

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

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

11.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

14.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

15.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

16.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

17.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

18.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

19.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

20.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

21.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

26.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

27.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

31.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

32.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

33.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

34.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

36.

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

Heinlein, Robert

37.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

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

39.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

40.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

41.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

44.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

45.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

46.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

47.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

48.

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

Buber, Martin

49.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.