Motivational Quotes

Love

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

10.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

11.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

12.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

14.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

15.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Thurber, James

21.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

22.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

26.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

27.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

29.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

30.

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

Eucharista Ward

31.

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

Duras, Marguerite

32.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

33.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

34.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

36.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

38.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

39.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

41.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

42.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

43.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

44.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

46.

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

47.

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

Mother Teresa

48.

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

Buber, Martin

49.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.