Motivational Quotes

Love

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

- French, Marilyn

Best Quotes about Love

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

10.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

11.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

14.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

17.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

18.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

19.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

20.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

21.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

22.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

23.

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

24.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

25.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

27.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

28.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

29.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

32.

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

Reik, Theodor

33.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

34.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

35.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

36.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry