Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

- Groening, Matt

Best Quotes about Love

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Fromm, Erich

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

11.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

13.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

14.

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

Thurber, James

15.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

16.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

18.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

20.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

21.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

22.

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

23.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

24.

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

Murdoch, Iris

25.

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

26.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

27.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

28.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

29.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

31.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

33.

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

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

35.

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

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

39.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

40.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

42.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Du Coeur

49.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider