Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Best Quotes about Love

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

W. Somerset Maugham

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

10.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

12.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

13.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

15.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

16.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

17.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Tomlin, Lily

19.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

20.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

23.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

25.

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

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

27.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

28.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

29.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

33.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

34.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

36.

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

37.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

38.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Swift, Jonathan

40.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

41.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

43.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

44.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.