Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

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

Proverb, French

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

11.

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

12.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

17.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

20.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

21.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

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

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

Ice T

26.

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

27.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

28.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

30.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

31.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

32.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

Saltus, Edgar

34.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

35.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

36.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

37.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

38.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

39.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

40.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

41.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

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

43.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

44.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

46.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

47.

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

Bridges, Robert

48.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.