Motivational Quotes

Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

10.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

12.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

13.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

14.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Irish

17.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

18.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

19.

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

20.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

24.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

25.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

26.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

28.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

29.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

30.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

31.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

33.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

35.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

36.

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.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

38.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

40.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

41.

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

42.

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

43.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

44.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

46.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

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

Reik, Theodor

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.