Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Chazal, Malcolm De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Heinlein, Robert

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

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

Bible

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Augustine, St.

14.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

15.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

16.

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

17.

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

Bridges, Robert

18.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

19.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

20.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

21.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

22.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

24.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

25.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

26.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

27.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

28.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

29.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

30.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

32.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

33.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

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

Pythagoras

35.

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

36.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

37.

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

38.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

39.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

40.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

41.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

42.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

44.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

45.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

46.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

47.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

48.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

49.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth