Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Love

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

10.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

11.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

12.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Strindberg, J. August

14.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

15.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

17.

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

Hertl, Nick

18.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

19.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

20.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

21.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

22.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

23.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

24.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

28.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

29.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

30.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

31.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

34.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Ovid

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

38.

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.

39.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

42.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen