Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Harrigan, John

3.

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

4.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

5.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

6.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

7.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

8.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

9.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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.

12.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

13.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

14.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

15.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

16.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

17.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

19.

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

20.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

21.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

22.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

23.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

24.

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

25.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

26.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Croft, Roy

29.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

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

31.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

32.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

33.

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

34.

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

35.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

39.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

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

Margaret Cho

42.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

43.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

44.

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

45.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

46.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

47.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

48.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

49.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

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