Motivational Quotes

Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

10.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

11.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

12.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

13.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

14.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

17.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

18.

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

Levine, Stephen

19.

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

20.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

22.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

26.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

27.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

28.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hugo, Victor

30.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

31.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

32.

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

33.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

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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

36.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

37.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

39.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

42.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

43.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

44.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

45.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Laing, R. D.

47.

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

48.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

49.

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

Vicious, Sid

50.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil