Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than violence.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Love

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Anouilh, Jean

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

10.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

11.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

12.

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

West, Mae

13.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

14.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

15.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

16.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

18.

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

19.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

20.

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

21.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

22.

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

Ice T

23.

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.

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

26.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

27.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

28.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

35.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Bible

39.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

41.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

42.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

43.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

44.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

45.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.