Motivational Quotes

Love

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Love

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

10.

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

Saltus, Edgar

11.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

12.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

13.

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

14.

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

Toni Morrison

15.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

16.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

17.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

19.

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

Murdoch, Iris

20.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

21.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

22.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

23.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

24.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

25.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

26.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

27.

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

28.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

31.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

32.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

33.

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

34.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

35.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

40.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

42.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

43.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

44.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

45.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.