Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

10.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

11.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

16.

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

17.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

18.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

19.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

20.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

22.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

23.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

25.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

26.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

27.

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

Behn, Aphra

28.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

30.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

31.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

32.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

33.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

34.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

35.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

36.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

37.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

38.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

39.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

40.

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

41.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

42.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.