Motivational Quotes

Love

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

- Ackerman, Diane

Best Quotes about Love

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

10.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

11.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

19.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

20.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

21.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

22.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

24.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

25.

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

26.

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

Heinlein, Robert

27.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

30.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

31.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

32.

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.

33.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

34.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

35.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hay, Louise L.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

40.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Ice T

42.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

44.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

46.

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

Jane Austen

47.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

49.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus