Motivational Quotes

Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

10.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

11.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

12.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

13.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

14.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

17.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

18.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

19.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

20.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

22.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

23.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

24.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

25.

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

Saltus, Edgar

26.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

27.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

28.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

29.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

30.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

31.

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

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

34.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

35.

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

36.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

39.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

40.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

41.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

42.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

43.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

44.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

45.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

47.

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

48.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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