Motivational Quotes

Love

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

- Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Best Quotes about Love

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

Elizabeth Aston

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Behn, Aphra

10.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

11.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

13.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

14.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

15.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

16.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

17.

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

18.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

19.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

20.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

22.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

23.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

25.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

26.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

27.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

29.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

31.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

32.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

35.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

37.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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.

39.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

40.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Brookner, Anita

44.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

45.

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

William Penn

46.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

47.

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

48.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

49.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen